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Two years after the devastating earthquake that killed more than 300,000 people in Haiti, scenes of desperation remain. A cholera outbreak has claimed thousands of lives. An estimated 100,000 people became amputees from injuries suffered in the quake. Mental illness, brought by lingering trauma from the destruction, remains a challenge, officials say.Read more...
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1.6 Million More Jobs at Risk from Illegal Subsidies WTO Violations Threaten Jobs Recovery in U.S. Auto IndustryWashington D.C.— More than 400,000 jobs in the U.S. auto supply chain have been lost since 2000 and another 1.6 million U.S. jobs are at risk unless China's illegal trading practices are curtailed, according to three separate reports released today. "Taken together, these three reports show beyond a shadow of a doubt that China's blatant use of illegal government subsidies and a web of predatory trade practices on a massive scale are undercutting companies in the U.S. auto supply chain," said Scott Paul, Executive Director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), a non-profit, non-partisan partnership of leading manufacturers and the United Steelworkers.Read more...
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Arlington, VA—The United States lost 28 percent of its high-technology manufacturing jobs over the last decade, as the nation’s rapidly shrinking lead in science and technology in the global marketplace was accompanied by a toll on U.S. high-tech jobs, according to a new study released today by the National Science Board (NSB), the policy making body for the National Science Foundation.Read more...
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Tricom worked with Steel Valley Authority's Strategic Early Warning Network (SEWN) to announce the opening of their new office in Philadelphia. SEWN is a strategic consulting and layoff aversion program that provides free services to companies that need help saving jobs, and since 1993, SEWN has helped save nearly 18,000 jobs in Pennsylvania.Read more...
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A Personal Response to Dana Goldstein’s Scratching the Surface of Obama’s Education Rhetoric
Dana Goldstein, Puffin Foundation writing fellow at The Nation Institute, recently released an article concerning President Obama’s stance on education in his State of the Union Address. Goldstein’s article highlights several arguments that I strongly agree with. Read more... -
Thoughts Leaving Your Comfort ZoneI’ve attended private school all my life. I went to a Catholic grade school, a Catholic high school and I even decided to attend a Catholic college. I chose Cabrini College because it was something that I was used to. I enjoyed the small class sizes and the small-school atmosphere because that is what I was surrounded by all my life.Read more...
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The vote totals on two different statewide referenda in Ohio on Tuesday offer ample evidence of what is currently troubling to the nation’s citizenry.
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Thoughts What Journalism Did For MeI took journalism classes my sophomore and junior years of college, and I can honestly say they were some of the best years of my life because the lessons I learned in those classes still impact me today.
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