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In the last six months, Equity Group, through the Equity Group Foundation has invested Ksh. 54.3 billion in social impact projects.

Canadian Hadassah-WIZO (CHW) recently announced that Dollard des Ormeaux’s Alanna Elias, formerly the Montreal Centre Coordinator, has been promoted to Director of Development, Eastern Canada.

We are expecting to see growth in jobs and the unemployment rate going down but it is not going to show the strength and effectiveness of a recovery if we keep seeing these payments going out. thats why 22 states have said no more payments. >> dana: one other thing i wanted to ask. the "wall street journal" warning about the entitlements. its the entitlements, its the real threat to americas economic future. entitlements start small but then they soar. there is warning on that. do you think peop...

The Atlantic Low wages benefit employers at the expense of both workers and taxpayers. January 14, 2021 Getty / The Atlantic The country’s very low minimum wage comes at a high cost. And for taxpayers, it adds up to more than $100 billion a year. That number comes from a new analysis of safety-net usage by Ken Jacobs, Ian Eve Perry, and Jenifer MacGillvary of UC Berkeley’s Labor Center. It identifies working families with at least one member who would get a raise if the federal minimum wage...

Innocenti Research Brief: Child Marriage and Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program Analysis of protective pathways in the Amhara region – Summary of report findings Format Emerging evidence suggests that social protection programmes can have a positive role in delaying marriage for girls. But the pathways and design features by which programmes may influence child marriage outcomes remain unknown. This mixed-methods study explores whether and how the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) ...

That is the big thing. and in a lot of these states it is up to more. and yet you have a big state with a lot of population needs where they didnt expand medicaid but needed to because there are so many uninsured. this is one of the florida senators. marco rubio openly saying that its time to gut medicaid. take a listen. >> the fundamental difference within the republican conference if you want to narrow it down is between senators who argue why are we doing so much on medicaid? lets only deal w...

Up to a quarter or even more of the people getting health care, kentucky, some of these other states. and yet you have a big state with a lot of population needs where they didnt expand medicaid but needed to. this is the florida -- one of the florida senators, the junior florida from florida marco rubio openly saying that its time to gut medicaid. take a listen. >> the fundamental difference within the republican conference if you want to narrow if down is between senators who argue why are we ...

Program which has been a safety net program on the books for more than 50 years ensuring that some of our most vulnerable citizen, our disabled children, our low income seniors, receive the health care that they need. >> massively different characterization of what happens to medicaid. what does that mean for those on the fence like dean he willer, portman, and why is the vice president making the case for the bill and the president is no where to be seen on it with the exception of a few tweets...

We should not be making fundamental changes in a vital safety net program thats been on the books for 50 yoerz. the medicaid program. without having a single hearing to evaluate what the consequences are going to be. >> i think the longer the bill is out there, the more conservative republicans are going to discover that its not repeal, and the more that everybody is going to discover that it keeps the fundamental flaw of obama care. for all republicans complaints about the death spiral of obama...

Safety net program thats been on the books for 50 years. the medicaid program, without having a single hearing to evaluate what the consequences are going to be. that doesnt mean that there arent problems with the medicaid program that need to be addressed, it doesnt mean that the aca doesnt have serious flaws. it does. thats why we need to go through the normal committee process and get input from people on both sides of the aisle. thats what would produce the kind of legislation that we need. ...