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More Iowa students with vision problems will be able to receive free eye exams and glasses after a $1.1 million donation from a non-profit organization.

North Carolinas Attorney General Josh Stein recently won a lawsuit shutting down a massive robocall operation out of Texas. According to the Attorney Generals office - in 2019 and 2020 alone - the companies Rising Eagle Capital Group LLC, JSquared Telecom LLC, and Rising Eagle Capital Group-Cayman bombarded North Carolinians with more than 75 million robocalls. Stein said Americans lose about $30 billion each year to fraud by scam callers, who intimidate consumers with threats of arrest. .....

Seventy percent of those who reach age 65 will need long-term care services or expensive in-home nursing care, and 42% of it nationwide is paid for by Medicaid. With long-term care costing nearly $100,000 a year in Nebraska as of 2022, assets can quickly be wiped out. Anne Mangiameli, an attorney in Omaha, said states are required to "recover" funds Medicaid spends on in-home or out-of-home nursing care for those 55 and older, but the Spousal Impoverishment program allows the...

By P.J. GLISSON news@yourdailyglobe.com HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a 2023 budget of nearly $20 million at its

Physical infrastructure needs to be built and the capacity and efficiency of the workforce should be enhanced to implement the Delta Plan the government has taken for economic growth and climate resilience, analysts said today.

The implementation of various projects under the Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 (BDP 2100) requires taking effective steps to build physical infrastructure as well as enhance the capacity and efficiency of the workforce, speakers said at a seminar yesterday.

Agriculture has consistently been the largest sector in Bangladesh, as in several other developing economies. About 50 percent of the population are employed in this sector and about 70 percent people overall depend on agriculture for their livelihood. A significant proportion of the poor relies on agriculture as the key source of income and employment. Indirect dependence on agriculture is reflected through employment in agro-based services and rural enterprises. However, for the past three de...