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Six billion dollar man
Original Source and Video Broadcast: 30/07/2009 Reporter: Kerry O’Brien Quietly spoken American billionaire Chuck Feeney has flown under the public radar for most of his long and very successful life. Over decades he built an international empire of duty free stores, but in the eighties,…
Author: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Obama to Sign Landmark National-Service Measure on Tuesday
Original Source By Suzanne Perry The nonprofit world will take a break from its economic woes and celebrate a big political victory on Tuesday when President Obama signs landmark legislation that boosts national service, volunteerism, and innovative social projects. The president, fulfilling a campaign pledge…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Law Opens Up 'Encore' Careers
Original Source By Kelly Greene The deep recession is forcing millions of Americans in their 50s and 60s to rethink plans for retirement. That shift — coupled with new legislation out of Washington — could help spur a commitment to national service not seen since…
Author: The Wall Street Journal
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The fight for universal health care
Original Source Richard Kirsch, national campaign manager for Health Care for America Now, takes nothing for granted. On the very day last week that President Barack Obama released his budget proposal, which includes a $634 billion reserve fund to overhaul the nation’s health care system, Kirsch…
Author: Politico
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Elderly Emerge as a New Class of Workers -- and the Jobless
by CLARE ANSBERRY AKRON, Ohio — Mary Appleby, 76 years old, lost her job in January as a cashier at a courthouse cafeteria here. She is now looking for minimum-wage work. Mary Bennett, 80, began filling out applications for fast-food restaurants and convenience stores after…
Author: The Wall Street Journal
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Baby boomers aren't sailing into cushy retirements
by JANE GLENN HAAS It wasn’t supposed to end this way. For baby boomers trickling toward retirement, these were going to be the golden years. The good life earned after toiling in some version of the 20th-Century vineyards. A big percentage of boomers envisioned no…
Author: The Orange County Register
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Bear Market for Charities
A Harlem Education Project That Won Big Corporate Backing Now Faces Cutbacks as Donors Close Their Wallets Original Source By MIKE SPECTOR NEW YORK — Geoffrey Canada has spent decades building a strategy for saving poor children from crime-ridden streets and crumbling public schools. His…
Author: The Wall Street Journal
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Give us five years, says health minister; 'No one wants to work in an unhappy environment'
by Kerry Cullinan and Anso Thom There is no reason why South Africa’s dysfunctional health system cannot be turned around within five years, according to new Health Minister Barbara Hogan. “I was fortunate to oversee the transformation of the SA Revenue Service from parliament, and…
Author: The Star (South Africa)
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Emotions still run high over ID card
Original Source By William Kaempffer, Register Staff NEW HAVEN – It took nearly 2 1/2 hours, but an aldermanic committee Tuesday ultimately voted to authorize the acceptance of funding for the city’s much-debated municipal identification card. While the Finance Committee vote was unanimous, there was…
Author: The New Haven Register
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Americans of All Ages Are Ready for Citizen Service: Are Politicians Ready to Lead Them?
This morning Senators John McCain and Barack Obama suspended their intense competition for the Presidency to visit Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, in tribute to those who lost their lives on a brilliantly sunny New York morning seven years ago today. And tonight they will…
Author: Gara LaMarche