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2012/05/28 07:49
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There is "light at the end of the tunnel" for hard-pressed families following five "torrid" years, a key forecasting group has said. The average earner will see their finances bolstered by an...
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2012/05/28 06:29
2012/05/28 06:29
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As a developing country, South Africa looks to the developed world for ideas of how to grow. It's important, then, that when the developed world realises and admits it's made mistakes, we adjust what...
2012/05/28 06:21
2012/05/28 06:21
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PITTSBURG -- Michael Fiore and his son, Matthew, became homeless in 2010, after Fiore survived cancer but couldn't find work. After losing their Concord apartment and nearly everything they owned,...
2012/05/28 04:41
2012/05/28 04:41
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More jobs gloom as engineering firm collapses 500 Heyday jobs at risk in NSW 200 Queensland jobs under threat Hundreds of Victorian workers received text messages this morning calling them to meetings...
2012/05/28 04:34
2012/05/28 04:34
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Monday May 28, 2012 ZEKE WRIGHTStaff WriterBENNINGTON -- Veterans training veterans is the idea behind a construction business one local man is currently trying to build. Mark Harwood of Bennington...
2012/05/28 04:18
2012/05/28 04:18
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More than 70 per cent of homeless people are discharged from hospital straight back onto the streets, often without their housing or underlying health problems addressed, a new report indicates. This...
2012/05/28 02:00
2012/05/28 02:00
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- The Haitian government has launched a program that uses mobile phones to transfer cash credits to mothers who keep their children in school. The program is called "Ti...
2012/05/28 00:51
2012/05/28 00:51
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Palm Beach County's homeless, who depend on a hodgepodge of charities for assistance, will soon have a central destination for aid, including case managers to help them find permanent housing...
2012/05/27 23:16
2012/05/27 23:16
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A Senate budget amendment that eliminates tighter restrictions on shelter eligibility for homeless families has attracted majority support in that branch a day prior to budget debate, with 22 senators...
2012/05/27 21:23
2012/05/27 21:23
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BOSTON — Massachusetts is reviewing applications from municipalities in a new program that would provide financing from the private sector. The Boston Globe reports that so-called social innovation...
2012/05/27 20:47
2012/05/27 20:47
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The government says it cannot afford an extra $140 million a year to address accusations that low funding of the aged care sector has turned it into "modern-day slavery". It says getting its books...
2012/05/27 18:59
2012/05/27 18:59
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The government has constituted one more expert group to re-examine the methodology for fixing a poverty line and estimating the incidence of poverty in the country. Changes in average incomes and...
2012/05/27 15:41
2012/05/27 15:41
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SALT LAKE CITY — Eighth-grade students at Rowland Hall School in Salt Lake City have been studying the issue of homelessness in Salt Lake City in their American Studies classes. Students have...
2012/05/27 12:43
2012/05/27 12:43
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India has witnessed an overall increase in literacy and a sharp rise in net enrolment ratio, but high dropout rate is proving a major hindrance in the success of Sarva Sikshya Abhiyan, a report said...
2012/05/27 12:34
2012/05/27 12:34
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Dee Dee Wright has been the Homeless Liaison for the Polk County School Board for 16 years. "This is the highest number we have ever had living in cars. They stay at Walmarts and Pilots because they...
2012/05/27 08:00
2012/05/27 08:00
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Willie Shumaker loved everything about his feature in the newspaper � except for the part where he died. That�s what he read one morning in April in The Contributor. There was even a big color...
2012/05/27 06:01
2012/05/27 06:01
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Every day, the 52-year-old sits at the computer in her Ansonia home and browses job listings. She is registered with five local temporary employment agencies. And she has taken advantage of every...
2012/05/27 03:49
2012/05/27 03:49
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Dan Richards, the president of the California Fish and Game Commission who sparked a storm of controversy this year for shooting a mountain lion in Idaho, has fallen out of the news in recent months,...
2012/05/27 03:03
2012/05/27 03:03
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But the recession hit here with a vengeance. "I have 750 kids in hotels," said Meredith Griffin, the homeless-education liaison for Osceola County schools. "They're easy to count because they have a...
2012/05/26 23:34
2012/05/26 23:34
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... -- Authorities have remained tight lipped about their interview with the mother of three children -- all apparently 3 years old or younger -- who were found alone in a vacant building in...