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SERVICES AND CARE FOR THE ELDERLY
SECTION: CAPITOL HILL HEARING TESTIMONY LENGTH: 1726 words Statement of Dr. Diana White Senior Research Associate, Institute on Aging Portland State University Committee on Senate Special Aging July 23, 2008 Good morning Senator Casey, Ranking Member Smith, and members of the Committee; I very much…
Author: Congressional Quarterly
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Trying to Save by Increasing Doctors' Fees
Original Source By MILT FREUDENHEIM Cutting health costs by paying doctors more? That is the premise of experiments under way by federal and state government agencies and many insurers around the country. The idea is that by paying family physicians, internists and pediatricians to devote…
Author: The New York Times
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Who Wants to Retire Later? (Don't Laugh)
Original Source Off the Shelf By HARRY HURT III WORK longer and retire later? The very idea sounds depressing, especially to overworked, underpaid, aging baby boomers like me. But we may have no choice if we want to avoid a precipitous decline in our accustomed…
Author: The New York Times
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Webinar: How Funders Can Choose to Manage Advocacy Campaigns
Webinar Link On Tuesday, July 15, 2008, over eighty foundation officers and other interested parties participated in a Webinar discussion on the different management styles that funders can employ when supporting an advocacy campaign. The Webinar was presented by the Forum of Regional Associations of…
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The elder-care crunch
13 Jul 2008 Original Source By Tanika White, Sun reporter After four years of medical school and three years of internal medicine training, Jessica Colburn could have chosen just about any field of medicine to practice. Gastroenterology would have been lucrative, brain surgery exciting. At…
Author: The Baltimore Sun
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Gary Bass Featured in Philanthropy News Digest on the Support of Nonprofit Advocacy
Original Source 5 Questions for… Gary Bass, Founder and Executive Director, OMB Watch Founded in 1983 with the goal of lifting the veil of secrecy then shrouding the White House Office of Management and Budget, OMB Watch is a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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The Biggest X Factor in Retiring Is When
by Emily Brandon Paulette Geller thought she had her retirement all figured out. Geller, 64, planned to work until 66 or 67 to boost her Social Security check. Then, after successful foot surgery last year, she was in the hospital being wheeled to her car…
Author: U.S. News & World Report
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PM Chucks in magic money man
By Peter Cameron PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd is courting Australia’s richest to take up where the federal Budget largesse left off. Mr. Rudd left little to chance. He enlisted Irish-American philanthropist Chuck Feeney to twist the tails of the rich and famous. Mr. Feeney was…
Author: The Gold Coast Bulletin (Australia)
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Charter Schools' Big Experiment
New Orleans’s Post-Katrina Test May Offer Lessons for Ailing Systems Original Source By Jay Mathews Washington Post Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS The storm that swamped this city three years ago also effectively swept away a public school system with a dismal record and faint prospects…
Author: The Washington Post
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Xenophobic Violence in South Africa: Rays of Hope in Terrible Times
Johannesburg, South Africa When I arrived here on Monday after eighteen hours in transit, I was greeted by the horrific image on the front page of that morning’s Star, of a refugee hunted down by a mob and burned alive, in a grim imitation of…
Author: Gara LaMarche