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Unpaid Internship? Some Colleges Pick Up the Tab

Source: Wall Street Journal

Amid mounting criticism of intern labor practices, several colleges are paying students who take on unpaid internships. Melissa Korn explains on the News Hub. Photo: Getty Images. The plight of the unpaid ...
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Kanye West allows baby's birth to be filmed

Source: Celebrity Balla

Kanye West and Kim Kardashian allowed the birth of their daughter to be filmed. The reality TV star's boyfriend refused to allow cameras for her series, 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians,' to record any foot ...
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Monterey County to expand health coverage program for low-income residents

Source: Monterey County Herald

Three months after the first low-income residents signed up for a temporary county health coverage program, it's being expanded. On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors approved expanding the ViaCare program's elig ...
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Double Rainbows All Up In This Mother!

Source: Gloucester Daily Times

Hi Joey I took this picture tonight I was told to share it with you…I hope you can use it…I have a little side business J ...
Full article at: Gloucester Daily Times More like this 1 day ago, 9:40am CDT

BREAKINGVIEWS-Detroit bankruptcy won't solve its people problem

Source: Thomson Reuters News & Insight

NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - A Detroit bankruptcy won't solve its people problem. Motown took a step closer to Chapter 11 last week when the state-appointed fix-it man called on bondholders and public workers to accept s ...
Full article at: Thomson Reuters News & Insight More like this 1 day ago, 9:33am CDT

Spanish Architects Rail Against Proposal That Would Make Them Obsolete

Source: The Business Insider

Pritzker Laureate Rafael Moneo is not pleased. A preliminary document reveals that, if passed, The Law of Professional Services (LSP) will modify labor regulations in order to allow engineers, or really any one “competent” in construction, to tak ...
Full article at: The Business Insider More like this 1 day ago, 9:31am CDT

Midwest Agricultural Museum Receives $50K Donation For Permanent Home

Source: Business Wire

TOULON, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Midwest Agricultural Museum announced today that soil erosion expert Louis T. Little of Kewanee, Illinois, donated $50,000 to the museum’s building fund. “We are very grateful to Mr. Little for his generous contribu ...
Full article at: Business Wire More like this 1 day ago, 9:29am CDT

Chicago's next US attorney faces urgent dilemma

Source: WTHR

(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast). Blood stains and a make shift memorial for 18-year-old Jamal Jones is seen where police found him with gunshots wounds to the shoulder and chest over the past weekend, on Chicago's Southside, Monday, June 17, 2 ...
Full article at: WTHR More like this 1 day ago, 9:28am CDT

New Study Finds Volunteering Increases Likelihood of Finding a Job

Source: PR Newswire

WASHINGTON, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A groundbreaking new report from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) provides the most compelling empirical evidence to date establishing an association between volunteering and ...
Full article at: PR Newswire More like this 1 day ago, 9:26am CDT

NLRB’s Continuing Mischief at the Expense of Worker Rights

Source: Town Hall

The National Employee Freedom Week (NEFW), which the Workforce Fairness Institute (WFI) strongly supports, is a nationwide campaign aimed at educating employees about their statutory and constitutional right to not be a union member. N ...
Full article at: Town Hall More like this 1 day ago, 9:26am CDT