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...last week, when Obama's Afghanistan point man Richard Holbrooke and his team laid out the Administration's aims for Afghanistan during a briefing at Washington's Center for American Progress, it was clear that the agenda had grown more ambitious. There was talk of creating jobs, growing agribusiness, reforming the justice sector, promoting mobile banking, starting a media commission, fighting corruption. Holbrooke never actually used the phrase, but his program sounded suspiciously like nation-building...
...Generations of Sogola residents have watched their children fall ill each rainy season, laid low by diarrhea, a disease which kills an astonishing 1.6 million children under 5 every year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). "Death is roaming here," says Traoré, 28. "It seems the children who have died are more than the children who live." (See pictures of of how zinc is saving lives in Mali...
...indicate how the hours reductions were distributed among the workers. Gingo said that he was not knowledgeable about the "specifics [of the reductions] down to individual employees," but noted that Becker's numbers were "consistent" with his understanding that the changes primarily affected subcontracted workers.Subcontracted janitors have been laid off at various sites throughout the University in recent months, drawing protests from union members, staff, and students. Harvard officials have defended the decisions by pointing to the projected 30 percent drop in the value of the University's endowment, and noting that compensation costs comprise roughly half of Harvard...
Carol Wilder, a single mother from nearby Bozeman who was laid off her from job in January and now has her two kids covered by Medicaid, wanted to know if Obama was going to follow the methods of countries such as Canada and the U.K. Obama responded that Americans pay more than $5,000 a year more than residents of those countries for their insurance and added that he is shooting for a "uniquely American system" without the government-run hospitals of some other countries. "It's not true that government will meddle with your doctor...
...money to create jobs. In Perry County, Tennessee, for example, 300 private- and public-sector positions are being subsidized through the use of several million dollars' worth of the state's emergency-fund allotment. Some of these are just temporary, a short-term pick-me-up for the laid-off. Elsewhere, officials are eyeing the emergency fund for longer-term aid. Los Angeles, for example, has plans to kick off a yearlong employment program that will give subsidized jobs to up to 10,000 people. (See 10 perfect jobs for the recession - and after...