Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.
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It makes a lot of sense if you think about it. Along with getting homeless people the help they need to deal with their mental illness and addiction issues, there are also a lot of homeless who -- whether or not they have those other problems to deal with -- need a lot of help learning how to manage money.
When I visited LAMP Community with Jon Bon Jovi (below), I learned that the shelter runs a bank for its clients and holds regular money management courses for them. I told Tess Vigeland, host of Marketplace Money (SUNDAYS AT 2PM), about it, and she thought it was a great idea for a story.