Social Welfare

Amanda McCorquodale

What Happens To 30,000 Pounds Of Gourmet Leftovers From SoBe Wine & Food Fest

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda McCorquodale | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Social Welfare, Brian Phelan, Miami Rescue Mission, What Happens to SBWFF Leftovers, South Beach Wine and Food Festival Leftovers, South Beach Wine and Food Festival, Miami Impact, Miami News, Burger Bash, Camillus House, Feeding South Florida, Impact, Florida International University, South Beach Food and Wine Festival, Miami News

The four-day South Beach Wine and Food Festival is an exercise in excess. Think delectable pork burgers topped with both fatty bacon and moist pulled ...

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Of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Michigan

Sarwar Kashmeri | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Cash Assistance, Welfare, Social Welfare, Child Welfare, Welfare Funding, Welfare Reform, Politics News
Sarwar Kashmeri

While not setting any time limits for funding the presence of American troops in Iraq or Afghanistan, Congress has set a Federal lifetime limit of 5 years on cash assistance to America's needy.

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Nokia Focuses On Windows By Slashing Jobs

Posted 06.27.2011

Read More: Nokia, Market Share, Tieto, Social Welfare, Apple, Symbian, Stephen Elop, Smartphones, True Finns Party, Accenture, Union of Professional Engineers in Finland, Helsinki Stock Exchange, Technology News

HELSINKI (Tarmo Virki, European Technology Correspondent) - Nokia will axe 7,000 jobs and outsource its legacy Symbian software to slash 1 billion...

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Philippine TV Show Canned After 6-Year-Old's 'Sexy' Dance

Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Social Welfare, Human Rights, Child Abuse, Willing Willie Dancing Boy, Willing Willie, Children's Rights, Willie Revillame, World News

The Philippines' most popular TV game show has been yanked from airwaves amidst public uproar over its host prodding a crying 6-year-old boy into mimi...

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Starting a Saudi Revolution Without Revolutionaries

Sabria Jawhar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Day of Rage, Social Welfare, Egypt. Tunisia, Saudi King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia, Reform, Government Corruption, Bahrain, Facebook, World News
Sabria Jawhar

Sometimes people are so hopeful about the prospect of more bloodshed spilled in the Middle East that they resort to stretching the truth to further their agenda.

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US Health Care Reform, As Seen From the Trenches (Part 4 of a 6-Part Series)

S.I. Adam, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, U.S. Economy, Social Welfare, Obama Health Care, Illegal Immigrants, Health Care, Home News
S.I. Adam, M.D.

The health care legislation is window dressing for government power.

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Upward Bound House Family Shelter

Lee Schneider | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Welfare, Housing, Upward Bound House, Path, Santa Monica, Motel, Homeless, Los Angeles, Family Shelter, Impact News
Lee Schneider

Santa Monica-based Upward Bound bought a motel, redesigned it from the outside in and started a brand new family shelter. Last month's grand opening was inspiring, but now it's down to business.

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San Diego's Safety Net: Riddled With Gaps

voiceofsandiego.org | KELLY BENNETT and DAGNY SALAS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social-Welfare, California, Safety Net, Los Angeles News

A voiceofsandiego.org investigation has found that the county government's historical resistance to provide social welfare programs has left a wide ch...

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Philanthropy and the Economic Crisis

Georgia Levenson Keohane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Social Welfare, Harlen Childrens Zone, Poverty, Social Contract, Tiger Foundation, Philanthropy, Economic Crisis, Non-Profits, Charitable Giving, Pri, Stimulus, Rockefeller Foundation, Goldman Sachs, Peter Singer, Ford Foundation, Bonus, Economic Recession, Heron Foundation, Julian Robertson, Strategic Philanthropy, Blue Ridge Foundation, Giving, Safety Net, Basic Needs, Socially-Useless, Foundations, Alesina, Glaeser, Impact News
Georgia Levenson Keohane

This week and next I am a guest blogger at The Center for Effective Philanthropy. My posts address philanthropy and the economic crisis, and include ...

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