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Kirk Gregersen, senior director for Microsoft's Live@Edu program, says many schools that already rely on Microsoft software and services are comfortable expanding the relationship by letting Microsoft manage Web-based student e-mail...
Soros was aiming his donation at a part of President Barack Obama's stimulus package that hasn't garnered much attention until now: a 4-to-1 federal matching program designed to help states assist poor families. This $5 billion pot of cash was set aside as an emergency fund to supplement the 12-year-old Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, i.e., the one that Bill Clinton boasted in 1996 would end "welfare as we know...
...million dollars' worth of the state's emergency-fund allotment. Some of these are just temporary, a short-term pick-me-up for the laid-off. Elsewhere, officials are eyeing the emergency fund for longer-term aid. Los Angeles, for example, has plans to kick off a yearlong employment program that will give subsidized jobs to up to 10,000 people. (See 10 perfect jobs for the recession - and after...
...York, advocates of the Back to School program responded to criticism that the plan does nothing to ensure that each child's $200 allotment will actually be spent on school supplies. "Parents will do right by their children," says Mimi Corcoran, director of the Special Fund for Poverty Alleviation at Soros' Open Society Institute. "We really didn't have a concern about parents' spending the money incorrectly. They know what's best for their children. No strings attached was important...
...shadowy Revolutionary Guards already oversee a 130,000-strong parallel army and run large swatches of Iran's economy, from dentist clinics to the country's controversial nuclear program. But signs have emerged in recent weeks that the élite military arm isn't satisfied: it may just want to run the entire Islamic republic...