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ALBANY—More lower income families would be eligible for the Family Health Plus program by removing depreciation of business assets from income eligibility calculations under legislation passed by the state Senate and sent to the Assembly.
“Programs like Family Health Plus and Child Health Plus have kept hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers healthy by making insurance [...]

Nowhere was that more evident on Saturday than in the village of Walnut Bottom, where hundreds from the local community once again turned out to support the annual chicken barbecue and Memorial Day parade.
People proudly displayed patriotic decorations down Main Street and waved mini American flags as area veterans marched on by, beginning near Kar-Tunes [...]

By Karen Brettell
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Washington Post won six Pulitzer
Prizes on Monday, including the prestigious Public Service
award for its reporting on conditions of U.S. war veterans at
America’s flagship military hospital.
The Pulitzer Prize board said the Post won for “exposing
the mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed [...]

By Cal Mankowski
NEW YORK, April 9 (Reuters) - Managed assets at Waddell %26amp;
Reed Financial Inc (WDR.N: Quote, Profile, Research) grew rapidly in the last year to $65
billion, with its Ivy Funds setting the pace, a senior
executive said.
The Ivy Asset Strategy Fund, which takes a “go anywhere”
approach, has been [...]

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By Karen Brettell
NEW YORK, April 7 (Reuters) - The Washington Post won six
Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including the prestigious Public
Service award for its reporting on conditions of U.S. war
veterans at America’s flagship military hospital.
The Pulitzer Prize board said the Post won [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The 92nd annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music were announced on Monday.
The following is a list of the winners:
PUBLIC SERVICE — The Washington Post staff for exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms.
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING [...]

I%26#8217;m talking about the food crisis. Over the past few years the prices of wheat, corn, rice and other basic foodstuffs have doubled or tripled, with much of the increase taking place just in the last few months. High food prices dismay even relatively well-off Americans %26#151; but they%26#8217;re truly devastating in [...]

Prison Talk, a big board with nearly 150,000 members and 2,500 regular readers a day, is a case in point. It caters to what turns out to be an underserved consumer niche: family and friends of the incarcerated. Prison inmates, whose Internet access is extremely limited, also turn up periodically, usually seeking pen pals [...]

Unison higher education conference delegates have voted overwhelmingly to end the exploitation of contract workers in higher education.Cleaning, catering and security services in higher education are increasingly provided by contractors who cut corners on terms and conditions, the public services union said, leading to a two-tier workforce.Workers are often immigrants paid the minimum wage. They [...]

he family of a Seaford man who was killed when a crane collapsed in midtown Manhattan intends to sue New York City and its buildings department for tens of millions of dollars, claiming their neglect caused or contributed to the 45-year-old construction worker’s death Family Affair.
The notice of claim comes as the city announced yesterday [...]