several microgrants clients are in mid-town global market, located in a long-shutrd sears roebucks store. >> they already had a loan inventory. they don't want any more loans. they can't make the cash flow. so a $1,000 injection of cash is really helpful. >> we use the money for like to fix the store, to like get what we need, like displays or like decorations for the church. >> we use the microgrant dollars for at the time was to more signage, redo our menus. our menus before was not professional. it was more of a homemade menu. >> i used it to purchase about 30 handmade senegalese drums which we use to offer free drum lessons every sunday. >> this man worked as masseur and part-time cook. his loan brought him closer to being able to live as an artist. he used a computer to make prints easier than making his originals. >> tell me that again? >> $140, and $70,000. >> some day he hopes to live off sales of originals. >> so you've sold three originals so far. >> yes. >> over how many years? >> all my life. [ laughter ] >> not surprisingly, he sells about ten times that number of prints per

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several microgrants clients are in midtown global market, located in a long-shuttered sears roebuck store in a recovering minneapolis neighborhood >> a lot of those places already had a $5,000 loan for inventory that they can't... they don't want any more loans. they can't make the cash flow. so a $1,000 injection of cash is really helpful. >> we used the money for to fix the store, displays, you know, decorations for the store. >> we used the micro-grant for, at the time, more signage. >> i used it to purchase 30 handmade senegalese drums, which we use to offer free drum lessons every sunday. >> reporter: salvador de montesinos works as a masseur and part-time cook to make ends meet. his $1,000 grant brought him closer to the goal of earning a living as an artist. he was able to buy a machine to make prints, which are much easier to sell than his very high priced originals. >> this is $140. this is $70,000. >> reporter: tell me that again? >> $140, $70,000. >> reporter: some day, he hopes to live off original sales. so, you've sold three originals? >> yes. >> reporter: over how many year

you thought well, next week i will run down to sears roebuck, you are out of luck. the only way you could get another set of tie years is to go before the government's tire board and prove that you have an essential reason for getting a new set of tires. likewise the radios, bicycles, clocks, even the common american could no longer purchase after the spring of 42. all the mechanisms are used in a war effort. .. a special welcome to our friends at c-span and the other media outlets who are with us tonight. we have a lot of special guests in the audience today. a special welcome to senator mike leigh, a good friend of the national archives. senator leave from utah. mark who himself clerked for future supreme court justice, justice alito when he was at the u.s. court of appeals. on monday, the constitution and the united states turned 225. the next program is one of the several the national archives is presenting this month in celebration of the founding document signed in philadelphia in september 17, 1787. tonight we are honored to welcome two distinguished guests o