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May 11, 2009
May 11, 2009Over the past 24 hours, World Vision, other international aid agencies, local partners and the Pakistani government have engaged in a coordinated effort to respond to the influx of refugees fleeing the Swat valley every day. Full release.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced today that funding for family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) activities in Kenya would rise to $17.8 million in 2009. This announcement represents an increase of $7 million to USAID's family planning and reproductive health activities in Kenya from just two years ago. Full release.
The Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) Board of Directors has been asked by many colleagues to issue a statement about the email that Professor William Robinson at the University of California at Santa Barbara sent to the students in his course on The Sociology of Globalization, in which he dispatched paired photographs of atrocities committed by the Nazis with photographs from the recent Israeli operations in Gaza. Full release.
Congressional Quarterly Inc. today announced that CQ Budget Tracker, Capitol Hill's definitive resource for real-time intelligence on the federal budget and appropriations process, will offer in-depth, comprehensive coverage of the president's budget proposal. Full release.
President Obama and U.S. Senate health care reform leaders must not override state consumer protection laws as suggested by health insurers last week, a move long-supported by insurers and the Bush Administration, said Consumer Watchdog in a letter to the president and senators. The hard-fought state laws enacted in nearly every state over the last 10 years were made necessary because Congress failed to enact Patients' Bill of Rights legislation. Full release.
America's farmers are extending an olive branch to the same urban media that have often been critical of agriculture, and some powerful U.S. lawmakers asked the nation's reporters in a letter today to give them a chance. Full release.
The National Inflation Association yesterday released the following statement to its http://inflation.us members: "Wall Street would like you to believe that the Dow Jones' recent 33% rally from March's low is due to improving economic fundamentals, but it is our belief this rally is due to nothing but inflation." Full release.