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Wal-Mart expands in-store health clinics with own brand
Edwards said putting Wal-Mart's name on the clinics also fits with the retailer's drive for a public role in health care to counter union-led criticism that it skimps on employee health insurance. Wal-Mart has introduced the clinics as well as $4 prescriptions for some generic medicines, and Chief Executive Lee Scott pledged last month to find other ways to help cut health care costs, including promoting the use of electronic health records instead of paper files. .
Report says Michigan lags in creating high-wage jobs
Our best guess is that unless we substantially increase the proportion of college-educated adults, particularly in our biggest metropolitan areas, Michigan will continue to trend downward in the per capita income rankings," the study said. The one bit of good news in the report is that Michigan gained 47,000 high-education, high-wage jobs in health care and education between 2000 and 2006. About 40,000 of those jobs were added in Grand Rapids and Detroit. Traditional economic development efforts are centered on using government financial incentives or cutting taxes to attract businesses and industries that will provide jobs for current residents. But Glazer said governments can't accurately predict which industries will produce future job growth.
New £130million grassroots grants programme seeks local funders
Local third sector funders across the country are today invited to become a local partner in delivering a ground-breaking £130million fund that will give grass roots third sector organisations access to grants for as little as £250. As well as providing much-needed small grants for third sector organisations, the Grassroots Grants programme will also help local funders to build endowment funds to provide a continuous source of small grant funding, by matching the money that the local funder raises in the community. The Community Development Foundation (CDF) is administering the programme nationally and the search has begun for local funders.. The £130 million fund, which will run from 2008-2011 will be divided into two parts: an £80 million small grants fund for community organisations; and a groundbreaking £50 million endowments programme to enable local funders to generate additional donations on a matched basis and invest them in endowments, thereby building their capacity to provide long-term funding for frontline community organisations.
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