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Medicare Plans Draw Criticism on Drug Pricing
Source: The Wall Street Journal
by JANE ZHANG and VANESSA FUHRMANS Figuring out which Medicare drug-insurance plan is right for you is confusing enough. Now, complaints are mounting about an obscure drug-pricing system that can force many older Americans to pay stiff penalties when they opt for brand-name drugs instead…
Resource type: News
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Six Entrepreneurs Over 60 Win $100,000 Purpose Prizes for Innovation, Extraordinary Contribution in Encore Careers
Source: Civic Ventures
Nine Others Win $10,000 Each, as Experienced Adults Prove to be an Unexpected Source of Social Innovation SAN FRANCISCO - One winner put his mechanical know-how to work and invented a $28 machine to help rural African villagers shell peanuts more efficiently. Another, in Fargo,…
Resource type: News
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'Tinker with the health system at your peril'
Source: Sunday Business Post (Ireland)
The confusion created by the mess over whether over-70s will retain their right to a medical card has created huge uncertainty for the health service and the elderly, reports Aileen O'Meara. As the opposition loudly hammered government ministers in the Dáil last Thursday for abolishing…
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Taking Account of Race as a Philanthropic Imperative
Foundations must take account of race in all of their work in order to get beyond racism, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies President and CEO, in this speech at the Waldemar Nielsen Issue Forums in Philanthropy, Georgetown Public Policy Institute in Washington. You might…
Resource type: Speech
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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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HHS Announces $15 Million Collaboration on Prevention for Older Americans
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
WASHINGTON, July 5 /PRNewswire/ -- HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced a $15 million collaboration with The Atlantic Philanthropies to improve the health and quality of life for older Americans at the community level. "This collaboration, led by the Administration on Aging (AoA) and involving…
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Just and Fair Schools Fund Newsletter: July 2012
Source: Just and Fair Schools Fund
The Just and Fair Schools Fund (JFSF) at Public Interest Projects supports grassroots organizing initiatives that work to eliminate harsh school discipline policies and practices - and that uphold the right to education for all youth. Our newsletter shares updates on parent-, youth-, and congregation-led victories,…
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Opposition to Health Law Is Steeped in Tradition
Source: The New York Times
By David Leonhardt. “We are against forcing all citizens, regardless of need, into a compulsory government program,” said one prominent critic of the new health care law. It is socialized medicine, he argued. If it stands, he said, “one of these days, you and I…
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Celebrating Financial Reform in the U.S. – An Advance for Social Justice
Source: Vivien Labaton
Vivien Labaton, Director of Strategic Programme Initiatives at The Atlantic Philanthropies, reflects on the recent passage of financial reform in the United States and the activities of Atlantic grantees to help bring it about. The recent passage of the financial reform law—the Dodd-Frank Wall…
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Changing the Story: Using the Arts to Advance Social Justice
Source: Gara LaMarche
In the 2008 film Sin Nombre, the audience follows a young Honduran woman named Sayra as she winds her way through Mexico and into the United States in search of a better life. Her trip is lonely and dangerous, and through her eyes Sin Nombre…
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