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15 hours ago
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t's gut-check time for President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats on their health care overhaul.
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2 hours ago
The couple had never needed social service agencies for help and ''they just don't know what to do. . . . We are getting calls from people who have never ...
Akron Beacon Journal via Google News 2 hours ago
It was particularly telling of the state's catastrophic finances because in years past state reductions tend to fall on the shoulders of social services and ...
New Times SLO via Google News 3 hours ago
Forty states are seeking federal school funding through a competitive Obama administration program that has prompted educational changes as well as resistance in much of the country. States have spent months, and in some cases millions of dollars in
Stateline via Moreover.com News 3 hours ago
... raised the price of electricity, and froze pay on public transit, infrastructure and vital social service providers such as doctors, nurses and teachers ...
Workers World via Google News 3 hours ago
Such a situation, said Rebecca Hackworth, director of social services and of the Haiti adoption program at Dillon International Inc., which has an office in ...
MyWestTexas.com via Google News 3 hours ago
LOS ANGELES — The University of Southern California dental school has something to smile about. The school announced Wednesday that USC graduate and trustee Herman Ostrow has donated $35 million to its School of Dentistry. It's believed to be the
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National PTA and the U.S. Department of Education honored students last week Friday for their award-winning artwork from PTA's Reflections Program. A ribbon-cutting ceremony held at the Department's headquarters on January 15th in Washington, D.C.
Interest!ALERT via Moreover.com News 3 hours ago
Chastened by the Democratic Senate loss in Massachusetts, President Barack Obama and congressional allies signaled Wednesday they may try to scale back his sweeping health care overhaul in an effort to at least keep parts of it alive. A simpler, less...
San Francisco Chronicle via Moreover.com News 4 hours ago
Healthcare is in jeopardy, but its not dead--especially if Democrats drag their feet on swearing in Brown. GA_googleAddAttr('s_title', 'What Coakleys Defeat Means for Healthcare GA_googleAddAttr('numchaps', GA_googleAddAttr('byline',
The Nation via Moreover.com News 4 hours ago
Former Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Florida, came out against President Obama’s health care plan on Wednesday. 'This plan was arrived at with unacceptable compromises,' said Ferre in a written statement. 'It is a
ABC News via Moreover.com News 4 hours ago
BOSTON, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following a major 7.0 earthquake on January 12, 2010, near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, international relief and development agency Oxfam America swung into action to raise emergency funds to assist
Business First of Louisville via Moreover.com News 4 hours ago
Century Foundation created Working Group on Medicare Reform, headed by Maggie Mahar, Century Foundation fellow. January 20, 2010 Brandraising: How Nonprofits Raise Visibility and Money Through Smart Communications, by Sarah Durham, published by
Philanthropy Journal via Moreover.com News 4 hours ago
In order to ensure long-term rebuilding can occur in Haiti in the wake of the Jan. 12 earthquake, donors should spread their contributions out over time, Perla Ni wrote in a column in the Stanford Social Innovation Review Jan. 18 (see Haiti giving
Philanthropy Journal via Moreover.com News 4 hours ago
April , 00 E Entrepreneurial Management Center at San Diego State University's College of Business Administration received $100,000 gift from Foundation for Enterprise Development as Beyster Fellowship supporting research on organizational inclusiveness
Philanthropy Journal via Moreover.com News 4 hours ago
Despite the onset of the recession, Maryland's nonprofit sector saw a 2.7 percent increase in nonprofit employment in 2008, a new says. That performance outpaces the for-profit sector, which saw job loss of 3.3 percent, says the report from the Johns
Philanthropy Journal via Moreover.com News 4 hours ago
President Obama and former U.S. presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton appeared together at the White House to announce the development of the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, which aims to raise money for relief efforts in the wake of the Jan. 12
Philanthropy Journal via Moreover.com News 4 hours ago
Chastened by the Democratic Senate loss in Massachusetts, President Barack Obama and congressional allies signaled Wednesday they may try to scale back his sweeping health care overhaul in an effort to at least keep parts of it alive. A simpler, less
Seattle Times via Moreover.com News 4 hours ago
Jay-Z are to collaborate on a joint charity single to benefit Haiti, they announced Wednesday, the same day as Rihanna released a cover version of Bob Marley's Redemption Song with the proceeds going to Haiti aid organisations. The announcement came as
Africa Leader via Moreover.com News 4 hours ago
President Barack Obama is telling Democrats not to 'jam' a health care overhaul bill through Congress, instead urging them to coalesce around popular parts of the bill. In an interview with ABC News, Obama said Wednesday that Congress must wait for newly
Kansas City Star via Moreover.com News 5 hours ago
Debbie Fox of Fox Fine Jewelry sent me an update about her "Share Ring" program, which began as an effort for her store and 45 other IJO member jewelers to give free necklaces to the unemployed for Valentine's Day 2008. The program continued to expand
Instore via Moreover.com News 5 hours ago
The senator-elect sits down with Karen Tumulty and considers the prospect of the House passing the Senate bill: I think they'll pay
Politico via Moreover.com News 5 hours ago
A 46-year-old Slidell woman was sentenced Wednesday to four months in prison for defrauding the Red Cross out of about $8,000 after Hurricane Katrina by applying for the same one-time benefit several times. And a 35-year-old LaPlace man pleaded guilty to
NOLA Live via Moreover.com News 5 hours ago
Festival Goers Donate More Than $14,500 to Haitian Relief Fund PR Newswire WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 20 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Red Cross of Greater Palm Beach will be collecting monetary donations to help the
New Mexico Business Weekly via Moreover.com News Latest Blog
2 days ago
From the Center for American Progress:The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. shifted his focus in the dwindling years of his life to an audacious, but achievable goal: ending poverty in the United States.In his book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, King argued that the United States must cha[...]
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1 week ago
Via Reuters:The latest budget plan from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger would force 200,000 children off low-cost medical insurance, end in-home care for 350,000 infirm and elderly citizens and slash income assistance to hundreds of thousands more.And that's the best-case scenario under Sc[...]
2 weeks ago
The state of anti-poverty policy, such as it is. A panel discussion from the Woodrow Wilson Center, with Peter Edelman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Maria Foscarinis, Alice O'Connor, and Margaret Simms. Go -- watch.
UPDATE: Follow along at home:
Battered by the StormThe Second Bill of RightsNati[...]
UPDATE: Follow along at home:
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3 weeks ago
It's just easier to see:
We live in a complex world and I don't mean to oversimplify this too much. But it seems to me that, rather than a change in underlying sentiments -- that is, more prevalence of quote-unquote extreme, alienated, nonmainstream, populist, pox-on-both-their-houses viewpoint[...]
We live in a complex world and I don't mean to oversimplify this too much. But it seems to me that, rather than a change in underlying sentiments -- that is, more prevalence of quote-unquote extreme, alienated, nonmainstream, populist, pox-on-both-their-houses viewpoint[...]
4 weeks ago
From Pandagon:
. . . Certainly, the discussion of welfare has always been bogged down by moralistic hand-wringing over the idea that the poor might scratch out some pleasure they don’t “deserve”, because it’s supposed to be reserved for what Sarah Palin likes to call Real Americans---wh[...]
. . . Certainly, the discussion of welfare has always been bogged down by moralistic hand-wringing over the idea that the poor might scratch out some pleasure they don’t “deserve”, because it’s supposed to be reserved for what Sarah Palin likes to call Real Americans---wh[...]
5 weeks ago
From the NYT:
Ann Kansfield, who runs a weekly food pantry at the Greenpoint Reformed Church in Brooklyn, cannot bring herself to tell you this, so I will: She doesn’t want your cans. As uncharitable as it sounds, she doesn’t want your holiday food drives. Don’t be offended. She knows you[...]
Ann Kansfield, who runs a weekly food pantry at the Greenpoint Reformed Church in Brooklyn, cannot bring herself to tell you this, so I will: She doesn’t want your cans. As uncharitable as it sounds, she doesn’t want your holiday food drives. Don’t be offended. She knows you[...]
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