Sign of the times: Kiva’s online loan program for needy entrepreneurs expands to include US

SAN FRANCISCO — Kiva.org has spent the past 3½ years raising money on the Internet to finance destitute entrepreneurs in 44 impoverished countries. Now in a sign of the economy’s spreading despair, the online “microlender” is reaching out to low-income entrepreneurs in the United States.

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