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Original Source The number of underinsured American adults - those with health insurance but high medical expenses relative to their incomes - rose 60 percent between 2003 and 2007, a new report from the Commonwealth Fund finds. The report, How Many Are Uninsured? Trends Among…

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…

Original Source As the number of uninsured in Georgia reaches 1.7 million residents, and 46 million nation-wide, the demand for free health clinic services that rely on healthcare professionals to donate their time rises. At a time when demand for services is increasing, these clinics…

Original Source By SUE SHELLENBARGER After children leave home, many parents with empty nests must search hard for new pursuits to give their lives meaning. After Pat Rosenberg's two daughters left for college, Ms. Rosenberg, 61, a longtime volunteer in the Houston public schools, found…

By Gara LaMarche Michael Edwards, in his openDemocracy essay " Philanthrocapitalism: after the goldrush" (20 March 2008), raises an important and necessary voice of concern about trends in philanthropy that have received too little scrutiny to date - either because, as is often the case…

By Lauren Foster When Mark Lachs, an internist who specialises in the care of the elderly, looks into the not-so-distant future, he sees millions of retirees and not enough doctors. The baby boomers are moving through the belly of the beast and are coming out…

By Juliet Lyon It took the US prison population less than 40 years to rise from 300,000 in 1972 to 2.3 million people. America has become the undisputed global leader in the rate at which it imprisons its citizens, easily outdistancing other high incarcerators such…

By Roy Exum If you were to go to Da Nang General Hospital in Vietnam today, you would be startled over the fact it is painted green a brilliant shamrock green to be more precise in a veiled effort to thank the Irish-American who built…

Chuck Feeney, who nudges others to give while living, plans to donate $8 billion by 2016. Just don't put his name on anything. By Margot Roosevelt One by one, speakers rose to toast the elderly gent with baggy pants and a shy, gaptoothed smile. "Of…

By Marc Freedman Some people watching the presidential race say it's time for boomers to clear the room. And some leaders in the nonprofit world might agree. It is easy to understand the reaction. With nearly 10,000 people turning 60 each day, an army of…