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Seriously, this contest restores my faith in humanity every year. I’m a little late in plugging it this year—it began all the way back on October 1. As of this writing, donors have already donated over $90,000 to help students in high poverty schools get badly-needed supplies and other resources. Like, y’know, DESKS.

As amazing as that is, we still have quite a ways to go before we hit the primary goal of $150,000, and we’re not even halfway to the final goal of $210,000. We have until Halloween to buy a truckload of books and other supplies for high-need children.

For details on how to participate in the challenge, visit the contest info page at Tomato Nation. If you don’t really care about getting a prize for participating, you can just head over to the Donors Choose project page and fork over some cash.

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There was a minor news item last week that caught my attention. Hillary Clinton proposed said she liked the idea of a baby bond program, in which every baby born in the US would get a $5000 government bond to help buy a house or pay for college. The idea is apparently to help encourage people to save money.

Erg…what?

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