Mini Health Fair Finds Major Diabetes Problem Among Marshallese
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The health education department for the Jones Center for Families, collaborated with area providers to bring the side-event to the annual event in Springdale. Over the Memorial Holiday weekend, hundreds of Marshall Islanders, residing in Arkansas and across the U.S., came to commemorate the 29th anniversary of their homeland’s constitution and welcome Republic of the [...]
Obama Gets Economic Tour Underway
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George Bush called it the Ownership Society, but it’s little more than a worn dogma that says we should give more to those at the top and hope that their good fortune trickles down to the hardworking many. For eight long years, our President sacrificed investments in health care, and education, and energy, and infrastructure [...]
Study Health Industry Growing
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Comparatively, employment in automotive manufacturing dropped by about 17 percent in that same three-year period and education jobs grew by only about 2 percent.
“The growth in health care employment was not enough to offset the losses in manufacturing,” said Charles Ballard, professor of economics at Michigan State University. “But clearly we’re a whole lot better [...]
Schools And Colleges Need A Response To Big Expansion Of Health Jobs
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Pharmacy, nursing and a host of medical therapies offer respected, well-paid careers with thousands of projected vacancies as today’s practitioners retire along with their fellow aging baby-boomers.
Delaware job growth in these fields has been a healthy 19 percent over the past five years. There are already 42,000 health care workers here, and the two crossing [...]
United Way Has New Goals For Education
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The president of the United Way of America announced plans this week to steer money over the next 10 years toward programs related to education, income and health care.
That’s already being done at the United Way of Central Oklahoma, the local organization’s president said Friday from Washington, where he was meeting with elected officials from [...]
Deer Park: School Voters Guide 2008
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The district is proposing a budget of $94,471,150 for 2008-09, an increase of 4.83 percent over the current budget of $90,115,985.
The proposed tax levy would be 60,336,873, a 0.41 percent decrease from the current tax levy of $60,587,001.
School taxes on the average single-family house assessed at $4,000 would decrease from $6,659 to $6,632, a decrease [...]
First Create The Right Jobs For The Graduates
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The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research is instituting an information gathering scheme aimed at the creation of a “data warehouseâ€. Details of students from the three federal universities, Zayed University, UAE University, and the Higher Colleges of Technology will be recorded and compared against the stated needs of employers. The ultimate goal is [...]
Teen Drivers Perceived Risks Point To Gaps In Education Strategies
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Thousands of teens reveal their perceptions, experience in scientific survey
Perception does not equal reality with teen drivers according to a study released today by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and State Farm Insurance(R) in the journal Pediatrics. Using the National Young Driver Survey, researchers studied more than 5,000 9th through 11th graders from across [...]
Cuba reorganizes family doctor program
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HAVANA (Reuters) - President Raul Castro’s government will close more than half of Cuba’s family doctor offices and boost staffing at the rest in a major reform of its vaunted free health care system, medical sources said.
The overhaul of one of the pillars of the health system came in response to public complaints, the sources [...]
Stein Stumps For State Education Law Change
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Instead of taking on President Bush and the automotive, health care and gun industries, Stein is taking on the vast world of academia in a new documentary. It challenges Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution with intelligent design, the belief that the world and man were created by an intelligent designer God.
“We’ve been troubled by the [...]
