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Twenty-five minutes later; the manicured lawns and cobblestone streets are gone as the bus pulls into Dudley Square, the hub of one of Boston's poorest neighborhoods...
...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...