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...nearly $3,000. Among high school seniors, 4 out of 5 have never taken a personal-finance class, but nearly half have an ATM debit card, and more than a quarter have bounced a check, according to a survey of 5,775 teens, released in April by the nonprofit JumpStart Coalition for Financial Literacy. If those trends continue, declaring bankruptcy could become as common as earning a bachelor's degree...
...Emmy Award-winning producer and writer of the West Wing Lawrence O’Donnell, Jr. ’76 at the Harvard Law School. Atlantic Monthly senior editor Corby Kummer moderated. The panel, co-sponsored by the HLS Committee on Sports and Entertainment Law and arts and entertainment nonprofit Creative Coalition, was organized to create conversation about the function of celebrities in aiding national causes. A part-time New Orleans resident, Shearer uses his weekly satirical radio show Le Show to remind the country of ongoing post-Katrina suffering and to suggest practical engineering solutions to the city?...
Students should lobby for increased affordable housing, accessible legal aid, adequate income, and universal healthcare to fight homelessness, a panel of experts said last night. Cambridge Student Partnerships, part of a student-run nonprofit that teaches low-income individuals how to be independent and obtain governmental assistance, sponsored the panel. About 50 students gathered on the plush leather couches of the Lowell Junior Common Room to hear the five speakers. Panelists began by discussing the causes of homelessness. Macy DeLong, who said she was once homeless herself, focused on how mental health issues can lead individuals to lose shelter...
...education. “Following that, and lots of dance classes, I’ll be applying to Julliard for my MA in dance,” she says.“I want to dance professionally, but my real long term goal is either to start my own nonprofit for dance education and performance, or to get involved with education policy and help revitalize the arts in education policy of the public school system,” she says.Such a future was not always a given for Cloud, who considered many different kinds of work, including consulting, earlier this...
Plans such as the one Oksana accepted still use the threat of removing a child from the home, but they also encourage troubled parents to enlist a support network--birth families, friends, in-laws, neighbors, nonprofit and government agencies--capable of interceding before a crisis develops. The results of this early-intervention approach, called Alternative Response, have been impressive. In Olmsted County, one of 20 counties that took part in a three-year pilot project, the recidivism rate for parents who went through the program tumbled from 16.1% in 2002 to just...