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New Study Finds Nearly One-Half of Children in Immigrant Families Live in Poverty
Source: Child Trends
Child Trends is an Atlantic grantee. Washington, DC- Nearly one-half (47.9 percent) of children in immigrant families live in poverty when basic living and child care costs are taken into account, according to a new research brief from Child Trends and the Center for Social…
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Skills to Learn to Restart Earnings
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By JOHN LELAND JUSTIN WILLIAMS worked as an engineer at Honeywell International for 31 years, and when he retired last April, he knew he could not afford to stop working. His home in suburban Maryland, on which he had spent his 401(k) savings,…
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Health Critic Brings a Past and a Wallet
Source: The New York Times
Health Care for America Now is an Atlantic grantee. By JIM RUTENBERG WASHINGTON — Richard L. Scott is unusual in these tough economic times: a rich, conservative investor willing to spend freely on a political cause. Mr. Scott is starring in his own rotation of advertisements…
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Huffington Site Starts Project to Investigate the Economy
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Huffington Post said Sunday that it would bankroll a group of investigative journalists and make the nation’s economy an initial priority for coverage. The Web site is collaborating with The Atlantic Philanthropies and other donors to create the Huffington Post…
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Large Foundations Fall Short in Supporting Vulnerable Groups
Source: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
Washington, D.C. - The nation's largest foundations only gave $1 out of $3 to benefit the economically and socially disadvantaged, according to the Criteria for Philanthropy at Its Best: Benchmarks to Assess and Enhance Grantmaker Impact, released yesterday by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.…
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JJC helping over-50 job seekers
Source: The Herald News
The last time Walter Corey searched for a job, it was standard protocol to go door-to-door, business-to-business, to distribute a resume. Two decades later, however, Corey learned that not only do the job seekers of today refrain from that practice, but most don't even leave…
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€300m boost to third-level research to drive job growth
Source: Irish Examiner
A GOVERNMENT plan to invest €300 million in third-level research will provide facilities for more than 1,400 college researchers in a bid to drive future job creation. The fifth cycle of the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI) announced by Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe…
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Northern Ireland's universities 'world leading'
Source: Belfast Telegraph
Some of the research by Northern Ireland's universities is world-leading, a report said today. Civil engineering, nursing and midwifery and electrical engineering were among subjects attracting the highest praise, a review by other colleges said. The University of Ulster (UU) and Queen's University Belfast (QUB)…
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Expansion of National Colleges Study Funded
Source: University of California, Riverside
RIVERSIDE, Calif. UC Riverside researchers have received a three-year, $390,060 grant from the Spencer Foundation to expand and update the Colleges & Universities 2000 study, which investigates patterns of continuity and change in four-year higher education institutions in the United States. A research team headed…
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Cash injection for nursing
Nursing education in South Africa is to receive a R70-million boost in the next four years with a donation from international donor organisation Atlantic Philanthropies. The grant is targeted at increasing the quality and quantity of nurse training in South Africa and to provide possibilities…
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