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Stimulus Would Help States Provide Food Stamps
Original Source and Audio by Pam Fessler Morning Edition, February 10, 2009 · Congress is on the verge of increasing funding for food stamps as part of the economic stimulus bill, because of the steep rise in the number of Americans applying for the aid.…
Author: NPR
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The Best Poverty-Fighting Bet
The Google IPO event of the nonprofit world Original Source By Georgia Levenson Keohane If any good comes out of the misguided farm bill passed last month, it will be the recognition that Americans are hungry. Amidst the egregious agricultural subsidies, the bill earmarks billions…
Author: Slate
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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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Senate Stimulus Cuts Fall Heavily on Kids
WASHINGTON, DC Today, First Focus, a bipartisan children’s advocacy organization, expressed serious disappointment over the proposed deal in the United States Senate regarding the economic recovery package. Specifically, a recent analysis by the organization has found that in the Senate, more that 45 percent of…
Author: First Focus
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Wider Opportunities for Women Endorses Recovery Package
(WASHINGTON, DC) — Wider Opportunities for Women strongly supports the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that will be debated on the House floor this week. With every day, economic conditions worsen and the struggle to take care of basic needs grows greater for women and…
Author: Wider Opportunities for Women
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More Schools Open Their Doors to the Whole Community
Victor Gonzalez, 12, is examined by a dental hygienist at a Grand Rapids, Mich., school this month. Photo: Patrick Record for The Wall Street Journal By Caroline Porter WYOMING, Mich.—On a recent weekday here, a steady stream of people dropped by one central location for…
Author: The Wall Street Journal
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In Equality We Trust?
By Nancy Folbre. Trust in other people greases the wheels of economic development. The management maven Steven Covey argues that high-trust companies are more successful than others. Higher incomes, in turn, seem to carry trust to higher levels. But as a recent Economix post by…
Author: Economix
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Statement on the Devastating Effects of the Ryan Budget
The Center for Public Policy Priorities (CPPP) released the following statement regarding U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget resolution. “U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget resolution is not a balanced approach to deficit reduction. In fact, it contains little real deficit…
Author: Center for Public Policy Priorities
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Community Pulse: Oakland School District is building eight school-based health centers
By Erica Mu. The Pulse pulls together the week’s community health, healthcare, medical and health research headlines. Below is an excerpt. Community Pulse It takes a village to keep a clinic open – at least that’s the case with Lyon-Martin Health Services, San Francisco’s Castro-based…
Author: KALW News
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