Federal Budget 2013: Want our vote? Here's what Wayne Swan needs to deliver
The Daily Telegraph
Some would like to see less spending on welfare, others want cheaper child care and many are happy to pay a Medicare levy increase to fund the national disability insurance scheme. To find out what Australians are ... He'd like to see a continued focus ...

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Our welfare state is unsustainable – huge changes are surely inevitable
CITY A.M.
We have a universal health service, universal education, universal state pensions, a benefits system in which 44 per cent of non-retired households get benefits other than child benefit, pensioner-age benefits, and social housing provision. Can we ...

Tasmania Mercury
Cuts fear for key services
Tasmania Mercury
CUTS to Commonwealth payments to fund integral health, education and community services could pose the biggest headache for the State Government as the Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan delivers the Commonwealth Budget today. With broad acknowledgment there ...

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Daily News
Dar Rotary Club, US foundation restore hearing to over 2000
Daily News
It thus tends to be more prevalent among poor families, who are unable to afford adequate healthcare. Early identification of hearing ... As public awareness grew, and parents began to witness for themselves the progress, both educational and social ...

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The Mercury
Cuts fear for key services
The Mercury
CUTS to Commonwealth payments to fund integral health, education and community services could pose the biggest headache for the State Government as the Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan delivers the Commonwealth Budget today. With broad acknowledgment there ...

Former Gillard advisor slams timidity on tax
ABC Online
STEPHEN LONG: And as a society Australia will need to make a decision about whether it wants a higher level of social provision, the things that we've become accustomed to in terms of health care and education and public services, or whether we ...

Registration opens for Child Abuse, Neglect Conference
UALR
In addition to encouraging participants from such areas as law enforcement, healthcare, social work, and education, conference coordinators are also seeking exhibitors and sponsors interested in setting up booths at the event. Register for the ...

How to Live to 100 - The Blue Zones
witf.org
Smart Talk. Radio Smart Talk is a daily, live, interactive program featuring conversations with newsmakers and experts in a variety of fields and exploring a wide range of issues and ideas, including the economy, politics, health care, education ...

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Muhammad Yunus' Bangladesh Workers Proposal Criticized As 'The Business ...
Huffington Post
Yunus has proposed creating a Garment Workers Welfare Trust, to be overseen either by Grameen Bank, Yunus' microcredit organization founded by Yunus and for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize, or by BRAC, by some measures the largest ... "[W]ith that ...

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Charity briefs for May 14
SouthtownStar
Candlelight Bowl: Lincolnway Special Recreation Association is hosting a candlelight bowl fundraiser at 6:30 p.m. May 17 at Laraway Lanes in New Lenox to raise funds for its TITANS program, a day program that fosters independence through life and ...

The parable of decentralization and local autonomy
Sun.Star
The main obligations include: education and culture, social welfare and health care, environment and technical infrastructure. The 2006 report also portends: "Today, municipalities face increasing pressures in terms of securing the welfare services ...

Excerpt: "The Roberts Court"
Chicago Tonight | WTTW
On the final day of the 2011–12 term, Roberts and the four moderate-liberal justices found common ground to save the linchpin of the new health care law—the individual mandate—while the four remaining conservatives, in angry dissent, skewered the ...

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gulfnews.com
After Savar tragedy, it's time for international minimum wage
gulfnews.com
If we can create a Garment Workers Welfare Trust in Bangladesh, with that additional 50 cents, we can resolve most of the issues the workers face — safety, work environment, pension, health care, housing, children's health, education, child care ...
Muhammad Yunus appeals to west to help Bangladesh's garment industryThe Guardian

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Dites Moi, Pourquoi
The Roanoke Star
It is a question repeated endlessly by our 4 year old children when we're simply too exasperated to answer and is largely absent from our political discourse whether it be in the arena of the environment, economy, health care or education. True ...

CBS News
IRS broadened criteria in scrutiny of political groups
Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)
Congressional Republicans are also showcasing complaints from businesses on a near-daily basis about the cost of the president's signature health care law as it prepares to go into full effect in 2014. ... The IRS has been under pressure from Democrats ...
IRS Targeting Of Non-Profit Groups For Extra Scrutiny Shifted: ReportHuffington Post
Poll: The feds' selective scrutiny of tax-exempt 'patriots'Los Angeles Times
Firestorm over 'political intimidation' by IRS - WorldNetDailyWND.com

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In Sierra Leone, President Engages Donors on a National Strategy for Teenage ...
Awareness Times
He said this at a high level meeting held at State House, facilitated by Ministry of Health and Sanitation in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs on a national strategy on teenage pregnancy in Sierra Leone ...

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rabble.ca
Gas fracking and coal exports: Two sleeper issues that will surge following BC ...
rabble.ca
Transit, education, health care, social welfare, housing -- these and other burning issues have received too little attention. Of more substance has been the debate over proposals to build or expand two tar sands pipelines from Alberta to coastal ...

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A Poverty Reduction Plan for BC
TheTyee.ca
To address this crisis, a poverty reduction strategy needs to set out a plan with legislated targets and timelines to boost the incomes of low-income households and provide much needed public goods, like social housing, universal child care, training ...

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Business etc: Armata's remodels for 50th anniversary, Springfield water loans ...
MassLive.com
... to work for in the nation at its 2011 Best Firms to Work for Summit in San Diego. Tighe & Bond provides engineering and environmental services for clients in government, industry, health care, education, real estate, energy and water/wastewater ...

Olakanpo - Business Sector Can Greatly Affect the Lives of Children
AllAfrica.com
Their welfare and safety? The successful implementation of the CRBP requires a shared commitment between the public sector, private sector and NGOs. This triangle of co-operation is what will lead to tremendous growth and development in this country ...