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Apr 23 2024
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Bridging gaps, building bonds: The power of intergenerational learning
SALISBURY — Intergenerational learning is a unique approach that offers a multiple benefits for preschoolers by providing a solid foundation for their cognitive, social and emotional development. Partners In Learning and Trinity Living Center began a collaboration in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to continue to have community connection outside of the classroom during a time when
Salisbury PostApr 24 2024
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Exit interview: St. Louis public housing director stressed by ‘doom and gloom’ of the job
In a wide-ranging interview, she described a particularly stressful tenure, given fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and $202 million in unmet preventive maintenance and other needs to the public housing system. The agency heavily relies on funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. She left during a historic time. The agency has ramped up and hired dozens of employees
St. Louis Post-DispatchApr 24 2024
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New Jersey is pushing local telecommuters who work for New York companies to appeal their Empire State tax bills
Telecommuting, a pandemic-era novelty that has become a permanent alternative for many people, has some Connecticut and New Jersey employees of New York-based companies questioning why they still have to pay personal income tax to the Empire State. Their home states are wondering as well. Fed up with losing out on hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue each year, New Jersey is now
FortuneDec 27 2023
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With Pandemic Funding Expired, Child Care Providers Seek Solutions to Shortages and Sticker Shock
As noted in our previous reporting, almost half the U.S. population is struggling to find adequate access to child care, according to a report from the Center for American Progress, and the rate is closer to 60% in rural areas.
During the first two years of the pandemic almost 20,000 child care centers permanently closed — nearly one in 10. Many child care workers lost their jobs or
The Daily YonderApr 23 2024
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North Korea sends a delegation to Iran in a growing effort to break its diplomatic isolation
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A high-level North Korean economic delegation was on its way to Iran, the North’s state media said Wednesday, for what would be the two countries’ first known talks since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is pushing to build up cooperation with countries confronting the United States, as his intensified weapons tests prompted the U.S
Associated PressApr 24 2024
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When North Texas brewery closes April 27, Fort Worth will be ‘a lot less funky’
Fort Worth brewery Funky Picnic spent the past six months “continuing the fight” to try to stay open, co-founder Samantha Glenn told The Dallas Morning News. But after lower-than-expected sales in March, which is, historically, Funky Picnic’s best month, the brewery will close permanently after service on April 27, 2024. The restaurant’s nearly 5-year run, from June 2019 to April 2024, took
The Dallas Morning NewsApr 23 2024
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Maine challenged to comply with new federal nursing home staffing mandates
As many as two-thirds of Maine’s 200-plus nursing homes will have to staff up to comply with new staffing mandates announced this week by the Biden Administration, according to main lobbying group. But many already are dealing with unprecedented staffing shortages that predated the pandemic and have only worsened since. “This staffing mandate is unrealistic in light of the historic and
Portland Press HeraldApr 23 2024
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RFK Jr.: Anthony Fauci ‘not in jail because Joe Biden is president’
Former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci steamrolled Donald Trump at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic and has only avoided prison time because of Joe Biden’s election in 2020, according to independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy, 70, has been a staunch opponent of the government’s response to the outbreak and is a vocal skeptic of the COVID vaccine. In
New York Post (News)Apr 23 2024
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Peñaloga tapped to be Basic Needs’ new executive director
Opey Peñaloga, chief operations officer at Special Olympics Idaho, has been hired to be the next executive director of Basic Needs Inc. of South Washington County. Peñaloga will start his new position on May 1. He succeeds retiring executive director Vickie Snyder, who has led the organization, formerly known as Stone Soup, since 2019. While at Special Olympics Idaho, Peñaloga led the
Pioneer PressOct 18 2023
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Household Net Worth Surged After the Pandemic Hit
U.S. families’ wealth surged in the years after Covid-19 struck, adding to signs of consumer strength that could help the U.S. economy shake off the bite from higher interest rates.
Households’ median net worth, or wealth, climbed 37% from 2019 to 2022, after adjusting for inflation, according to the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances released Wednesday. That was the largest
Wall Street Journal (News)