Results List
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The Perfect Storm
Source: The Nation
The intensifying economic crisis slams the world of nonprofit organizations. Original Source By Eyal Press In the days between Christmas and New Year's Eve, Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, sat at his desk in Lower Manhattan and reached out to people…
Resource type: News
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Wider Opportunities for Women Endorses Recovery Package
Source: Wider Opportunities for Women
(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…
Resource type: News
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The State of Adolescent Health Services: How the System Fails Young People
Source: Gara LaMarche
In the United States, we are about to engage in a potentially historic debate about long-overdue reform of our inadequate health care system, and big change may be on the way. That is exactly what we need because our current system is failing the very…
Resource type: News
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FOIC ruling to face challenge
Source: Yale Daily News
by Aaron Bray This July, the Elm City Resident Card celebrated both its one-year anniversary and a long-awaited court victory - although opponents are looking to cut the celebrations short. At the conclusion of months of testimony and hearings before the state Freedom of Information…
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FOIC ruling to face challenge
Source: Yale Daily News
Original Source By Aaron Bray, Staff Reporter This July, the Elm City Resident Card celebrated both its one-year anniversary and a long-awaited court victory - although opponents are looking to cut the celebrations short. At the conclusion of months of testimony and hearings before the…
Resource type: News
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Millions With Chronic Disease Get Little to No Treatment
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By REED ABELSON Millions of Americans with chronic disease like diabetes or high blood pressure are not getting adequate treatment because they are among the nation's growing ranks of uninsured. That is the central finding of a new study to be published Tuesday…
Resource type: News
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Garamendi Launches a National Health Care Reform Campaign to Keep Presidential Candidates in Check
Source: California Chronicle
Original Source California Political Desk LOS ANGELES Bolstered by nurses, doctors, labor unions, small business owners and women's groups, Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi has unveiled a $40 million national health care reform campaign to hold health insurance companies accountable and provide quality, affordable health care…
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Youth Justice Advocates Reject Excessively Punitive Measures, Call for Research-Based Approach to Ensuring Safe and Fair Schools
Source: Legal Aid of North Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C. – A new issue brief released today by youth justice advocates debunks common myths driving much of the school safety debate and provides a comprehensive, research-based approach to the issue. The brief is endorsed by 56 organizations in North Carolina and across the…
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Supporting Legal Action
Source: Alliance Magazine
Laws provide the skeletal frame of a social order but while laws in theory and by tradition serve the cause of justice, they can easily be, and often are, used to reinforce a repressive regime. Here James A. Goldston and Martin O’Brien reflect on the…
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It’s All Downhill From 38: Why Ageing Is Not Just for the Old
Source: The Irish Times
A new centre for successful ageing aims to address the challenges we all face.
Resource type: News