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...area where the charity sector is continuing to develop effective measures of the impact of community projects. There are ways to assess success by looking at outcomes. If it's a venture-capital project, how much business is created? How many jobs are created? The best companies do employ these methods...
...Iraqi government announced that it was revoking the license of Blackwater USA, the private security firm, to operate in the country. This came after the reported killing of eight Iraqi civilians by Blackwater employees. The United States government should respect the wishes of the Iraqi government and cease to employ Blackwater security forces in Iraq. Furthermore, the practice of using private security forces in the place of U.S. soldiers should be halted altogether.According to the Department of Defense, which overseas all branches of the military, there are currently about 129,000 private contractors in Iraq, of all nationalities and from...
...That means the revised employer mandate in her new plan would miss a large segment of the uninsured population; currently, the Clinton campaign acknowledged, only 48% of companies that employ fewer than 10 people provide health benefits. Instead, Clinton's new plan achieves universal coverage by imposing an "individual mandate" - a requirement that those who do not get coverage from their employers go out and purchase it themselves - but also by offering tax breaks and other incentives to make that affordable. It would be financed in part by eliminating President Bush's tax cuts for wealthier Americans...
...want to alienate the insiders. (Obama says he has his own plan for reform, thank you.) Clinton does take money from federal lobbyists-some $400,000 so far-and has defended them, saying they "represent real Americans ... They represent nurses, they represent social workers ... they represent corporations that employ a lot of people." That's impolitic but true-as legislators know, lobbyists serve a purpose. "Some of the best information I got was from lobbyists," says Bill Bradley. "What's important isn't shutting them out but breaking the money connection...
...black (sometimes chocolate brown, occasionally deep red) pointy-toed pumps into my shoulder bag, scurrying over sidewalks and across subway platforms in my well-worn Reefs. The contrast of casual Reefs against the most formal of business attire hardly raises an eyebrow from my subway companions; Fellow female commuters employ similar tactics, some donning socks and sneakers over their pantyhose, others opting for the ballet flat with their flared pant suit. And they do so not just for reasons of orthopedic health, but out of protective affection for their Jimmy Choos—wary of the wear-and-tear...