Toronto Around 2006 the Harper government in Canada had a pretty good citizen wealth idea to advance the educational opportunity for lower income children. They would give a $500 grant to children born after 2005 in a savings instrument for future higher education expenditure, if or when the child went to [...]
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Lima In a bold experiment at the ACORN International staff meeting we tried to schedule and link our far flung offices together via free Skype connections to be able to hear reports from India and Kenya and introduce staff and leaders to each other. As the expression goes in Spanish it [...] New Orleans After several campaigns almost yielded victories around Canada, ACORN Canada in British Columbia broke through in New Westminster with a stunning, unanimous vote to win the first living wage policy for any governmental jurisdiction in the country. Perhaps as remarkable was the adoption of a top tier wage and [...] Montreal Spring is still an unconfirmed rumor here it turned out, as afternoon winds signaled a front lowering the temperature from a sunny day to what ended up as 15 degrees and a wind chill beneath contempt. Fortunately for Judy Duncan, ACORN Canada’s Head Organizer, and Jill O’Reilly, the head organizer for Ottawa ACORN, [...] |
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