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The Center for Constitutional Rights is an Atlantic grantee. by NINA BERNSTEIN Twice the immigration judge asked the woman’s name. Twice she gave it: Xiu Ping Jiang. But he chided her, a Chinese New Yorker, for answering his question before the court interpreter had translated…

A supplementary budget for the Republic of Ireland contains tough but necessary measures to set the country on the road to recovery after a difficult recession, said Brian Cowen, Taoiseach for the Republic of Ireland, in this speech. Original Source Ceann Comhairle Yesterday, the Minister…

Original Source by Victoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer UCSF Medical Center has received a $125 million donation, among the largest in its history, to help build a planned $1.68 billion hospital to provide services to women, children and cancer patients near its Mission Bay biomedical complex,…

Original Source by Peter Kleinbard Nearly 70% of youth who drop out of school have very poor literacy and other core skills. Indeed, this is the primary reason why they leave school. Yet most funding for dropouts is targeted to those who are most job…

by JANE GLENN HAAS It wasn't supposed to end this way. For baby boomers trickling toward retirement, these were going to be the golden years. The good life earned after toiling in some version of the 20th-Century vineyards. A big percentage of boomers envisioned no…

Original Source By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Op-Ed Columnist So maybe I was wrong. I used to consider health care our greatest national shame, considering that we spend twice as much on medical care as many European nations, yet American children are twice as likely to die before…

Original Source Click here to listen to the interview. Summit TV speaks to Dr Victoria Pinkney-Atkinson about the award of millions of dollars by The Atlantic Philanthropies into South African nursing educational institutions that may change the face of nursing as we know it. Jane…

Original Source By Heather Joslyn Six nonprofit workers in their 60s and 70s today have been announced as the winners of the third annual Purpose Prizes, given by Civic Ventures, a nonprofit group in San Francisco that promotes projects that use the skills and experience of older…

Original Source Barack Obama's campaign politicized and organized more youth than any campaign has in recent history. The Prospect asked nine organizers, writers, and thinkers at the forefront of progressivism and youth activism to suggest one way of incorporating these youth into the progressive movement.…

The roots of the global financial crisis, and the paths out of it, are matters for debate. But what no one disputes is that the landscape in which foundations like Atlantic are working has been dramatically altered, and likely will be for some time to…