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...program will also offer more flexibility to students looking to enter the public service sector. Though funding is only intended to last one year, Shabecoff said, students will be eligible for continued support if necessary and will not be required to remain in the public sector for a specified period of time...
While private sector firms can rely on consultants and venture capitalists to raise money for start-ups, social enterprises largely lack a similar infrastructure, said Alan A. Khazei ’83, a Law School graduate who is advising the fund...
Because the Law School has never offered seed grants before, Shabecoff said she plans to gather expertise from foundations that offer similar services as well as convene a committee of faculty and public and private sector professionals...
...news is being followed with obsessive intensity. Widows in black are chattering about "the spread" - the premium investors demand to buy Greek debt - while the country's unions are mustering their strength, hoping to show the government they will not accept pay and benefit cuts quietly. Thousands of public sector workers and their supporters took to the drizzly streets of Athens on Wednesday to protest the government's proposed austerity measures, which include a 10% cut on bonuses, which make up a large percentage of many state employees' total wages, and increases in the retirement age for women. A strike...
...humiliation of welcoming the world with a half-built Olympic Village, but at a great price: in early 2009, new Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson declared that taxpayers were "on the hook" for the $1 billion project. "What ended up happening was that the city became a bank for private-sector development," says Mark Cutler, director of Olympic Village Development for the Vancouver Organizing Committee, the body that is operating the complex during the Games. (See what becomes of Olympic stadiums...