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by John M. Bridgeland and Bruce Reed The economic downturn has prompted congressional action to shore up the financial sector and get credit flowing. What's been missing is a concerted effort to respond to a quiet crisis in America - the plight of the nonprofit…

Original Source By Staff reporter The Lifestart Foundation – the umbrella group for Lifestart projects throughout the North West and Ireland – is looking to recruit local families onto a major new study which will help improve the support offered by the organisation to new parents. Lifestart…

by DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Around the globe, accidents kill 830,000 children -- the equivalent of all the children in Chicago -- every year, according to a report issued Tuesday by the World Health Organization and Unicef. The report, the first to collect all known…

Investment Will be Used to Improve the Lives of Young People Nationwide ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Communities In Schools, the nation's largest dropout prevention organization, is proud to announce that it is one of only three national organizations to receive a competitive grant…

Longer lives, inadequate savings and a slowing economy are among the reasons why more people are working past the average retirement age of 63. by Dave Carpenter Americans are changing the game plan for retirement, with millions laboring right past the traditional retirement age and…

by Dave Carpenter Americans are changing the game plan for retirement, with millions laboring right past the traditional retirement age and working into their late 60s and beyond. While the average retirement age remains 63, that standard may soon be going the way of the…

Original Source By DAN AVERY A few years ago, Frank Rogers found himself at a crossroads. The child of drug addicts, he spent most of his childhood in New York City's notorious foster-care system, bouncing between homes in Harlem, Brooklyn and the South Bronx. By…

Original Source By Francis Hweshe The Western Cape government has acknowledged the fears expressed by some refugees over their reintegration, but says it willcontinue to work towards returning them to the communities from which they were displaced. During the xenophobic attacks in May, about 20,000…

Moderates would respond to a Democrat willing to slip the ideological stranglehold of a liberal interest group. Original Source by Jonathan Alter One of the best things about the democratic primaries was that horse-race-obsessed reporters rarely asked the candidates about education. Why was that good?…

19 Jun 2008 By Natasha Prince Several of the Caledon Square group of refugees were back on the streets on Wednesday night, geared up to sleep in the rain outside the Cape Town magistrate's court after the Treatment Action Campaign ran out of funds to…