Matthew lesko

Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs.

Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it.

One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people...

I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong...

There are thousands of grant programs and every program has different requirements and deadlines.

What I do in my book is let people know about these programs.

We all have to stand by our life's work as the true test of what we have done for the world.

There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business.

So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.

My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined.