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America's Voice Laments Tragic Loss of Life at Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Non-profit in Binghamton, NY
America’s Voice is an Atlantic grantee. Washington, DC — Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims of this terrible tragedy. This is a time for mourning, not a time for pointing fingers and placing blame. The facts of the incident will…
Author: America's Voice
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Doctors Are Opting Out of Medicare
Original Source By JULIE CONNELLY EARLY this year, Barbara Plumb, a freelance editor and writer in New York who is on Medicare, received a disturbing letter. Her gynecologist informed her that she was opting out of Medicare. When Ms. Plumb asked her primary-care doctor to…
Author: The New York Times
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A Move to Expand Volunteer Ranks
Original Source By ELIZABETH POPE OLDER Americans who want to help solve the nation’s social problems will soon have even more opportunities to do so. Last month, Congress passed legislation that expands national and community service programs and includes provisions to attract adults over 55…
Author: The New York Times
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Health Critic Brings a Past and a Wallet
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…
Author: The New York Times
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Davies to join UQ population health
THE former deputy secretary of the Federal government’s department of health and ageing, Philip Davies, will join the University of Queensland‘s school of population health as professor of health systems and policy. The Head of UQ’s School of Population Health, Professor Alan Lopez, said that Professor…
Author: The Australian
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Skills to Learn to Restart Earnings
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,…
Author: The New York Times
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SOUTH AFRICA: Time running out for treatment targets
DURBAN, 2 April 2009 (PlusNews) – Task-shifting is urgently needed if South Africa is to meet its ambitious goal of reaching 80 percent of those in need of antiretroviral (ARV) treatment by 2011, delegates attending the fourth national AIDS conference heard this week. South Africa will…
Author: PlusNews
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Nurses Should Be Backbone of ARV Treatment
by Kristin Palitza DURBAN, Apr 2 (IPS) – Effectively scaling up South Africans’ access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment will require decentralisation of health services from hospitals to clinics and allowing nurses to manage and eventually to initiate ARV treatment and care. Doctors, researchers and activists…
Author: Inter Press Service
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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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Service or Advocacy: What Can Foundations Do and What's Their Responsibility Given this Economy?
Original Source By Wagner Blogger With the U.S. in the throes of a devastating economic crisis and donation dollars more scarce than ever, should foundations divert their funding efforts to direct-service programs which assist casualties of this devastating recession — or should they instead continue…
Author: NYU Wagner Public Service Blog