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...were privileged to attend a reception for the United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan,in University Hall last Thursday. His visit was an inspiration: Annan has spent the better part of his life pursuing cooperation among nations and helping the poorest of the poor...
Johnson is part of a small but impressive welfare-to-work program Sprint began last October in one of Kansas City's poorest neighborhoods. Sprint's 18th-and-Vine call center employs 48 operators, half of whom were on public assistance. The center is meeting its performance standards, and its 77% retention rate is more than twice as good as Sprint's call center in the Kansas City suburbs. That's a big deal in an industry where every employee departure can mean $6,000 to $15,000 in lost training and productivity. Sprint is thinking about upping the 18th...
Outlining his intentions for increasing funding for technological discoveries--including support for the "e-rate" which would provide discounted Internet hookups for America's poorest schools--Clinton said "we cannot point and click our way to a better future" and called for a coalition between the government and the private sector...
...people to generate income through self-employment. The results are higher incomes, better health and better school attendance. Microbanking now functions on a large scale. For example, the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh has more than 2 million borrowers, most of them village women, in one of the world's poorest countries. Yet the on-time repayment rate is 98%. In the microbanks, the interests of the customers, not global strategy, come first. BLAISE SALMON Victoria...
...work. While attractive, this proposal ignores the fact that there would still be no incentive for children to get an education under a living wage scenario, even assuming that such a wage is sufficient to allow two adults to enroll their 4.5 kids in schools. The poorest classes in developing countries might not fully realize the long-run value of an education, and even if they did, the regions concerned might not have acceptable schools, if any at all. Only by attaching an economic incentive to schooling, and by imparting that schooling in carefully monitored settings, can we be sure...