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...unheard of at Harvard. Both the Kennedy School of Government and the Law School have loan forgiveness plans to help students not entering high-paying jobs. The Kennedy School grants eligibility for loan forgiveness to students "engaged in qualifying public service positions, employed by a governmental or nonprofit organization and receiving a salary of no more than the limit which is announced annually." Likewise, the Law School states that its program "seeks to ensure freedom of job choice within the legal profession by providing loan repayment assistance to our graduates who take full-time, low paying, law-related jobs...
Buffett often claims to be uninterested in money, but he has been uneven about sharing it. He gives freely to environmental causes and has a foundation that donates $1 from every concert ticket to grants for nonprofit agencies in the cities where he plays. At the same time, his band, though well paid, has long griped about having no pension plan. Buffett is now creating one for his veteran sidemen...
Many workers at small businesses will soon have the option of banking at a credit union, thanks to a bill the President signed last week. Under the guidelines, which overrule a Supreme Court decision, groups of workers from different companies can join the same credit union. The nonprofit financial cooperatives offer better rates on savings and loans to 73 million Americans...
...focus now is on "soft skills," basics like showing up on time, dressing appropriately and not fighting with co-workers. "Employers are saying, 'Give us people with the right attitude and job readiness, and we'll take care of the rest," says Eli Segal, president of the nonprofit Welfare to Work Partnership...
...Disease Control and Prevention found that 60% of the girls were trying to lose weight, compared with 24% of the boys. More cases of anorexia and bulimia are reported every year, and between 5% and 10% of females 14 and older suffer from such disorders, according to the nonprofit group Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention. "I don't think in local communities and in schools we're seeing any real flowering of girl power," says Joan Brumberg, author of The Body Project, which draws on diary entries from Victorian times to the present to argue that girls have increasingly defined...