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That's precisely what trailblazing companies like Marriott and nonprofit outfits like the California-based Center for Employment Training have been demonstrating--albeit to a still relatively tiny degree. Under their tutelage, tens of thousands of former welfare recipients now hold down positions ranging from executive secretary to shop-floor inspector to assistant hotel manager. Importantly, the programs are market driven, providing truly qualified workers for companies with real needs. Here is a look at some of the leading efforts...
Just after President Clinton renewed his call for a ban on unrestricted donations to political parties, the nonprofit group Common Cause released a study showing that a record $34.3 million in "soft money" direct donations had been received by the Republican and Democratic parties so far this year, while phone records have revealed that Vice President Gore in 1996 made 44 fund-raising calls from the White House, using a Clinton-Gore re-election campaign credit card...
...enough to fill 5 million Army National Guard trucks. Second Harvest says it cannot possibly handle that increasing demand. Already some pantries have had to ration their dole-outs to families and single parents with children. Other organizations feel the impact as well. Share Our Strength, a Washington-based nonprofit organization, provides funding for more than 500 food-based groups. "Many of the agencies we support are seeing big jumps," says Bill Shore, the group's executive director. Phil Shanholtzer, a U.S. Department of Agriculture spokesman, says the federal agency is hearing anecdotal evidence of food-demand increases through...
...trying to determine whether the Forum was used to launder foreign campaign funds. The controversy was foreshadowed in the memo by Baroody, who explained he was resigning partly over Barbour's "fascination" with foreign sources of funding. Baroody wrote that while the think tank's bid for nonprofit tax status required it to distance itself from partisan activities, staff members felt the group was "operated like a division" of the Republican National Committee. He cited examples of R.N.C. intervention to underline his "concern that separation between [the Forum] and R.N.C. is a fiction." A Barbour associate told TIME that...
...poster boy for capital punishment--perhaps the most effective since Ted Bundy--McVeigh is causing so much discussion that "it's as if we have not had a death penalty until now," says Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, a nonprofit organization that represents capital defendants. Foes of the death penalty find this troubling, since McVeigh's case is so unusual, but they should be grateful to him for reopening a debate that was essentially over in America. Three-quarters of the public--along with the Congress, the President and the courts--is solidly in favor...