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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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Irish recluse is biggest benefactor
Source: The Sunday Times (London)
The publicity-shy son of the low-budget airline founder has donated the sum during the past five years Original Source by Tom Lyons A son of the late Tony Ryan, co-founder of Ryanair, has emerged as one of Ireland’s leading philanthropists, having donated €27m in five…
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Eldercare Workforce Alliance to Address the Critical Shortage of Healthcare Workers Capable of Meeting the Needs of Older Adults
Source: Eldercare Workforce Alliance
The Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA) -- a new coalition of 25 leading organizations representing older adults and the eldercare workforce, including family caregivers, healthcare professionals, and direct-care workers -- is holding its founding meeting this week in Washington, D.C. This wide array of national organizations…
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Southern Africa: HIV pregnancy, stigma and ignorance
Source: Plus News
JOHANNESBURG, 26 January 2009 (PlusNews) - For many women, pregnancy is a time of anticipation and celebration, but for those living positively it can be frustrating when their status – and not their pregnancy – takes centre stage. Being pregnant and positive often comes with…
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Hogan appoints TAC activist as AIDS adviser
Source: Business Day (South Africa)
Original Source by Tamar KahnScience and Health Editor CAPE TOWN — In a clear break with the traditions of her predecessor, Health Minister Barbara Hogan has employed prominent AIDS activist Fatima Hassan as an adviser. Unlike Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who had a frosty relationship with SA’s…
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Baby boomers find meaning in 'encore careers' at nonprofit groups
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Original Source By BOB MOOS Move over, Bill Gates. You've got company. The former full-time executive of Microsoft and present co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is just one of an estimated 1.1 million baby boomers who have traded jobs in the corporate…
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Older, Wiser, and Now Valued
Source: The Gazette (Montreal)
Original Source After retiring from a career with the Steinberg's grocery chain, Gérard Bréhin took a long break from the workforce. But a few years ago, he started scouting around for opportunities. He was looking for a new challenge and contact with people, but not…
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Call to give child benefit to asylum seekers
Source: The Irish Times
Payment of child benefit should be restored for children of asylum seekers to ensure families can have a basic standard of living, the head of the State's advisory body on racism said yesterday. Philip Watt, of the National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism, said…
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Signs Off
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone…
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Could Foundations Have Mounted a Better Defense of the ACA?
Source: Health Affairs Blog
By Michael Booth It came sometime after the “You lie!” outburst and the false claims of “death panels,” but before two potentially fatal US Supreme Court decisions and sixty-seven consecutive votes to repeal in the US House of Representatives. In hindsight, President Obama’s signing of…
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