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Billy Gerchick

NCAA must revisit compensation for athletes - 2 views

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  • Billy Gerchick on 09 Apr 14
     
    NCAA must revisit compensation for athletes, Boivin: Take the ''pay'' out of ''play,'' and you're left with one giant L. The NCAA needs to take a long, hard look at its scholarship policies before its image lands in the loss column again.
  • Billy Gerchick on 09 Apr 14
     
    NCAA must revisit compensation for athletes, Boivin: Take the ''pay'' out of ''play,'' and you're left with one giant L. The NCAA needs to take a long, hard look at its scholarship policies before its image lands in the loss column again.
Maelani Parker

Poor housing can destroy a child's future, says Lisa Harker | Society | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • News Society Second thoughts Home truths Poor housing can destroy a child's future, says Lisa Harker Share 3 Email Lisa Harker The Guardian, Tuesday 12 September 2006 Britain is hooked on housing. Queues snake round DIY retail parks each weekend, and TV schedules are saturated with home makeover shows. But there is one area where the appetite for all things housing appears to have stopped short.While the government's Every Child Matters programme for child welfare picks out health, safety, economic well-being, making a positive contribution, enjoying and achieving as the critical factors that shape children's lives, there is no explicit recognition of the role that housing plays - despite the fact that more than a million children in Britain are living in poor housing.That figure will come as no surprise to professionals working at the sharp end of the housing crisis, but whether the scale of the problem is grasped by those shaping public policy is far from clear.Earlier this year I was commissioned by Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity, to undertake a comprehensive review of research examining the impact of bad housing on children's future chances. The resulting report, Chance of a Lifetime, published today, documents the powerful influence of poor housing on children's lives and shows how its destabilising impact is felt long into adulthood.
  • Earlier this year I was commissioned by Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity, to undertake a comprehensive review of research examining the impact of bad housing on children's future chances. The resulting report, Chance of a Lifetime, published today, documents the powerful influence of poor housing on children's lives and shows how its destabilising impact is felt long into adulthood.
  • On every aspect of life - mental, physical, emotional, social and economic - living in bad housing can hand children a devastating legacy. Studies show that poor housing can lead to a 25% higher risk of experiencing severe ill-health and disability before they reach middle age. In particular, such children face a greater chance of developing meningitis, infections, asthma or other respiratory problems
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  • It can also have a devastating impact on emotional wellbeing. Research shows that homeless children are three to four times more likely to have mental health problems than other children
  • How can a homeless child flourish when they are two to three times more likely to be absent from school and become used to watching their no more able, but well-housed, contemporaries leapfrog their progress? How can a child develop healthily when their home is cold and damp, their chest hurts when they breathe, and they can't sleep at night, as one girl described her experience of living in a house where the heating does not work?
  • Maelani Parker on 26 Aug 12
     
    Where a child is required to make their home has a lasting effect on their health and their well-being. This carries into society and has an effect there as well.
Wesley Zika

Republican seeks to allow cuts in public pensions | Arizona Capitol Times - 0 views

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  • This doesn’t remove the pensions, this simply says if the money’s not there the benefits have to be trimmed to make the system healthy. And employees were never promised” cost of living increases, Kavanagh said. But, “if the world was to flip into a recession, and we went into a depression, surely members don’t think that life will go merrily along in the public pension realm.”
  • House Minority Leader Chad Campbell said Tuesday there are funding problems wi
  • Wesley Zika on 09 Mar 14
     
    "Sigrid Whitman"
Wesley Zika

Arizona pension system still best for public workers, taxpayers | Arizona Capitol Times - 0 views

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  • not qualify for Social Security, leaving them to rely exclusively on their pension check. Public safety workers hired before 1986 also don’t qualify for Medicare, meaning they must pay at least $7,000 annually for health insurance.
  • Wesley Zika on 09 Mar 14
     
    "Arizona pension system still best for public workers, taxpayers"
Wesley Zika

Big pension costs also a burden for other states - 0 views

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  • e of the reasons Arizona's pension trusts are in better shape than those in some other states is because their protection was mandated in a public vote 12 years ago. That vote may be coming back to haunt Arizona taxpayers, as it forces them to pay a growing share of the cost for those guaranteed benefits.
Wesley Zika

Whitman says pension-reform plans don't apply to police, firefighters - latimes.com - 0 views

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  • "New government employees, not public safety employees but new government employees beyond the public-safety realm, are going to have to come on under a different deal," Whitman said at a campaign event earlier this year. "They're going to have to come in under a 401(k) program, what we call a defined contribution program, as opposed to a defined benefit program, and this will get us a long way home towards reducing this huge unfunded pension liability.
  • Wesley Zika on 09 Mar 14
     
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Billy Gerchick

Mauling of Phoenix boy keys debate over fate of pit bull - 0 views

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  • In the midst of the social-media blitz over the issue, the county felt a backlash when a controversial Facebook comment was posted on the “Save Mickey” page by an Animal Care and Control employee: “This is stupid the owners surrendered the dog. You guys doing all of this, won’t help any. He’s going night night!!” The employee’s action appeared to violate county social-media policy, and administrative action will be taken, Silva said.
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      Billy Gerchick on 12 Mar 14
       
      Lindsey V. May be interested in this story.
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