http://social-light.net Social Light places a “Spotlight” on youth development programs making a difference in the lives of kids Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:30:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As an entrepreneur with a decent understanding of finance, I must say the size of current government spending and the proposed deficit is alarming—particularly because we’re borrowing the money which will increase our national deficit to a whopping $9.3 Trillion as stated by the Congressional Budget Office. The federal ... http://social-light.net/2009/04/01/bailing-out-our-youth/ I think Bill Clinton gets it. I watched him recently in an interview on CNN with Larry King where part of the discussion focused on his work with the Clinton Global Initiative. Larry asked President Clinton what the most important lesson was he learned since the inception of CGI in ... http://social-light.net/2008/10/07/its-the-system-stupid/ This post was written by Vik Kothari, a colleague at Digital Network Group... In the recent press, we have been having a huge debate about “US being a nation of whiners!” It all started with a comment from John McCain's financial advisor, Phil Gramm who claimed that “we have sort of ... http://social-light.net/2008/10/07/i-am-not-complaining/ As creator of Social Light, I felt it appropriate to inaugurate the site by sharing my personal experience with social programs. In 1979, I was chosen to participate in Project Concern, one of many desegregation social experiments implemented during the sweeping idealism of the 1960s. Based in Connecticut, Project Concern ... http://social-light.net/2008/04/14/busing-programsare-they-worth-the-trip/ Glad you stopped by...we're working on our first post! Stay tuned and please sign-up to receive our RSS so you'll know when our post is available! http://social-light.net/2008/04/08/welcome-to-social-light/