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by ADAM NOSSITER LAUREL, Miss. - In another large-scale workplace immigration crackdown, federal officials raided a factory here on Monday, detaining at least 350 workers they said were in the country illegally. Numerous agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement descended on a factory belonging to…

"I won't be long." Those were the last words Michael Gallagher heard his son Aiden say as he left to buy jeans in Omagh on August 15, 1998. The 58-year-old has been very much the public voice and face of the bomb victims over the…

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…

Middle school students in five Chicago public schools will have greater access to academic, social and health services because of an $18 million grant school officials will announce Wednesday. The four-year grant, provided by The Atlantic Philanthropies, will fund the Integrated Services in Schools program…

Middle school students in five Chicago public schools will have greater access to academic, social and health services because of an $18 million grant school officials will announce Wednesday. The four-year grant, provided by The Atlantic Philanthropies, will fund the Integrated Services in Schools program…

Helping vulnerable and disadvantaged people to make lasting changes in their living conditions is at the core of Atlantic’s mission, and in every country in which we work there is significant and sometimes – as in the United States – growing inequality. The persistence of…

I’m visiting Atlantic’s programmes in Viet Nam right now, and a few days ago a provincial health official proudly told a group of us that the Government recently made health care free for all of the nine million Vietnamese children under the age of six.…

A STRONG majority of people in Ireland believe that non-EU workers here on a work permit should be able to bring their families to live here with them, and that their family members should be allowed to work here, according to polls conducted by Red…

The Center for Public Policy Priorities (CPPP) released the following statement regarding U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's budget resolution."U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's budget resolution is not a balanced approach to deficit reduction. In fact, it contains little real deficit reduction.…

In their new book, “Half the Sky,” Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn assert that there can be no social or economic justice, or human rights progress around the world, that does not have women and girls at its core. It’s a…