It’s been just over a week since Detroit filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history and, so far, there are more questions than answers about how this will all shake out. On Wednesday, a U.S. Bankruptcy judge ruled Detroit’s Chapter 9 ...
Posted Sunday, July 28th 2013 at 2:36PM
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Remember the Middle Class Task Force? Gee, how could you have forgotten? President Obama set up this group shortly after taking office in 2009, to identify the strains weighing on mainstream Americans and come up with solutions. So far, the MCTF has ...
Posted Sunday, July 28th 2013 at 2:26PM
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(AtlantaBlackStar.com) A staggering number of African-American children are raised in single parent homes, compared to the rest of America, and the rest of the world. A study conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development foun ...
Posted Saturday, July 27th 2013 at 2:26PM
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The woes of adulthood are hitting today’s children too fast and not only via the pernicious influences of popular culture, marketing and peer pressure. More and more children are being diagnosed with chronic diseases that have previously been only se ...
Posted Saturday, July 27th 2013 at 10:35AM
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Back in February, I lamented here the fact that in order to continue my cruise job, I would have to recertify my BLS and ACLS. I thought that was over with when I retired from hospital nursing. My main source of annoyance was that I was going to hav ...
Posted Friday, July 26th 2013 at 9:20PM
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Black Professional Women are looking for women who would like to be Moderators for the Black Professional Women website. This will expand your current business network and establish your identity as a business owner if you are just starting your own ...
Posted Friday, July 26th 2013 at 3:17PM
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Boren Scholarship Funds Student’s Study Abroad Program
A Bowie State University undergraduate with dreams of becoming an immigration lawyer will travel to her childhood home of Nigeria in the fall to study the Yoruba language, as a recipient of th ...
Posted Friday, July 26th 2013 at 3:06PM
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YOUR WORLD AND NATIONAL NEWS
DAY 25
July 2013
They've been hacked!
At least 160 million credit cards numbers were hacked by a ring of hackers from companies includes J.C. Penny, 7-Eleven, JetBlue, Heartland Payment Systems and the Carrefour. ...
Posted Friday, July 26th 2013 at 10:08AM
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YOUR WORLD NEWS
JULY 2013
DAY 26
RIO DE JANEIRO , Brazil
With thousands of followers everywhere the Pope's visit to Brazil has been one which will be with record-breaking memories. Brazilians of the faith are exceedingly giving the Pope wide ...
Posted Friday, July 26th 2013 at 9:08AM
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You go through nine months of preparation, but nothing really prepares you for the moment an infant is wrapped in pink or blue and placed in your arms. And then it hits you—you’re a parent. It’s not like babysitting or being in charge of your younger ...
Posted Thursday, July 25th 2013 at 8:41PM
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(CNN) -- Odin Lloyd, who authorities allege was murdered by former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, carved a reputation as a trophy-accumulating athlete who in school had a mischievous streak for jokes and pranks, relatives said. Lloyd, ...
Posted Thursday, July 25th 2013 at 5:37PM
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...The new Affordable Care Act, which expands health-insurance coverage and cuts half a trillion dollars from Medicare, aims to slow the growth in health care spending by encouraging more coordinated patient care and rewarding quality over quantity. ...
Posted Thursday, July 25th 2013 at 5:19PM
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Mary Jo Gorman of Advanced ICU Care, a telemedicine company, explains why it makes sense to have doctors communicate with patients over a 'Skype on steroids.'
http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2013/07/24/fortune-trailblazers-icu-telemedicine.f ...
Posted Thursday, July 25th 2013 at 5:00PM
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July 25, 2013 (CNNMoney) When the state-based insurance exchanges open next year under Obamacare, many Americans should finally have access to affordable insurance. But millions of others will most likely be left out in the cold and remain uninsured. ...
Posted Thursday, July 25th 2013 at 4:55PM
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Thursday issued the first social manifesto of his young pontificate, telling slum dwellers in Brazil that the world's rich must do much more to wipe out vast inequalities between the haves and the have-nots. ...
Posted Thursday, July 25th 2013 at 4:43PM
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