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Trading Favors for Charity
'Time dollar' programs let participants give and receiveBy Sara Anne Donnelly
Roberta House shops with fake money she earned by helping her neighbors. Her fake money buys very real items — clothes, dishes, bleach, toothbrushes, soap — at a small store run by the nonprofit MORE Time Dollar Exchange, in St. Louis.
The exchange is a "time bank," which allows...