The Economic Spin

A list of stories online with all the negative turns and events of the WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS.

Iceland's government topples amid financial mess

By DAVID STRINGER, Associated Press Writer David Stringer, Associated Press Writer

Circuit City closing its stores

By DIANE TEZENO

Home Depot to cut 7,000 jobs, close Expo chain

By ASHLEY M. HEHER, AP Retail Writer

Rents Drop Nationwide as Vacancies Spike

by Prashant Gopal
Friday, January 23, 2009

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Shoe Drop 2009 Has New Page

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The Shoes Keep Walking In

1-16-2009 Update on Shoe Drop MX

Just like a wild fire, the word got around that we are doing a shoe drop. Within two weeks, what started as 50 plus shoes has multiplied to 200+ Generous support from Jill, and many parents have jumped on board with the donation process. We what to thank each and everyone who has taken the time to help with the project, especially, the donors who gave the shoes.

We hope to connect the donors with the users by attaching a person who gave the shoes to the person who will wear it. Somehow, with the creative vision of the camera team we can make it happen. It would be nice to follow the story of a shoe I donated, and see which person has taken advantage of them. That's one of our goals, cross our fingers we can make it happen.

We have already set a date on when we plan to drop off the shoes, we will keep you posted on the results as we get them. We hope to go even further to El Salvador and Guatemala for future projects.

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Shoe Drop Mexico 2009

1-4-09

Happy New Year readers of this blog! As we are preparing for our shoe drop in Mexico, I wanted to make sure to update some of the followers and readers of the blog. Currently we have 20 + more shoes to give out to the kids, Kisha, one of our amazing friends has bought shoes from Delaware area, and has brought them to Los Angeles. She said the shoes where a great buy due to no taxes. Plus we have Jill who is also coordinating something in the Castaic area and working with some moms to collect some shoes. The project seems to be coming along, and more and more people are willing to join in on the small cause. We are hoping to make this very successful, and to plan for other trips in other countries.

As we are brainstorming to more ideas for the future, I had suggested to also make future trips to Guatemala, and we can work with a local shipping company, and meet the supplies down there to deliver them in person.

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