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Healey’s economic plan emphasizes the importance of retaining college graduates to work in the Bay State. The plethora of colleges and universities in Massachusetts presents the state with an unparalleled opportunity to develop a highly skilled labor force and attract businesses. Currently, however, higher taxes, insufficient housing, and an overall higher cost of living squander this opportunity by chasing recent graduates away. Indeed, Massachusetts was the only state in the Union to experience negative population growth in 2004, as the cost of living skyrocketed...
More often, his subjects play along with startling nonchalance. When Borat asks which type of car he should buy to attract a girl with “a shave down below,” the dealer barely skips a beat before responding, “what you want is a Corvette.” This straight-talking instinct makes for good comedy, exposing the American id in all its potential hilarity, and brutality...
First Minister Jack W. McConnell instituted the “Fresh Talent” initiative in 2004 to attract young people to Scotland to live and work in order to calm the forever-growing paranoia of declining population and increasing age demographic. And I, as a journalist, would absorb all the factoids of Scotland beyond the stereotypical kilts, bagpipes, Scotch, haggis, sensationalist journalism, and redheads and write about them in an intricate weaving of prose for Harvard students to read...
Youth ministers have been on a long and frustrating quest of their own over the past two decades or so. Believing that a message wrapped in pop-culture packaging was the way to attract teens to their flocks, pastors watered down the religious content and boosted the entertainment. But in recent years churches have begun offering their young people a style of religious instruction grounded in Bible study and teachings about the doctrines of their denomination. Their conversion has been sparked by the recognition that sugarcoated Christianity, popular in the 1980s and early '90s, has caused growing numbers of kids...
...problem is that small charities tend to fly beneath most donors' radar. So it's the big, branded charities, with their honed message and their fund-raising skills, that attract big contributions. The top 400 get $1 of every $4 raised, a share that is edging higher even as the number of small nonprofits explodes...