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Live chat with reporter Charles Piller
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer2007-12-17 13:07:12.0 Administrator2: We're chatting live with Times reporter Charles Piller about his ongoing Gates Foundation investigation. Welcome Charles, and welcome chatters! 2007-12-17 13:07:38.0 Jane: What prompted you to write this piece? It'...Tags: Health, Social Issues, AIDS, HIV, Hospitals and Clinics
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Union-founded nonprofit spent zero on its charitable purpose in two years
A nonprofit organization founded by California's largest union local reported spending nothing on its charitable purpose -- to develop housing for low-income workers -- during at least two of the four years it has been operating, federal records show....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Personal Income, Justice System, Career and Workplace
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Records show no recent aid to two charities from union golf event
For several years, the Service Employees International Union's largest California local has staged a lavish golf tournament that it bills as a fundraiser for two nonprofit groups affiliated with the labor organization. But neither charity's financial...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Social Issues, Career and Workplace, Internal Revenue Service, Employees
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Orange County's careless cutbacks
There were disturbing reminders of the old Orange County government -- the one from decades ago that had little interest in providing services to the poor -- when officials announced plans last week to lay off 210 social services workers and require 4,000...Tags: Social Issues, Finance, Layoffs and Downsizing, Economy, Business and Finance, Career and Workplace
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Maternal care -- or harm?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt was lunchtime at Loma Linda Academy when the social workers arrived, escorted by a deputy sheriff. They were there to collect the Udvardi children. Amid dozens of students munching sandwiches and chips, school officials found 6-year-old Esther, then...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Health, Physical Conditions, Career and Workplace, Hospitals and Clinics
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National Service? No thanks
If only John F. Kennedy could have known that his inaugural address call to service in 1961 -- "ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country" -- would become the rallying cry for generations of rich, middle-aged men...Tags: Social Issues, Human Rights, Politics, Elections, Christopher Dodd
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Guidelines to humanize immigration raids
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has formally adopted federal guidelines aimed at softening treatment of illegal immigrants arrested in work-site raids who are pregnant, nursing infants or serving as sole caregivers to children or seriously ill...Tags: Police Arrests, Crime, Law and Justice, Health, Career and Workplace, Hospitals and Clinics
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A closer look at state spending
John G. Matsusaka's recent Op-Ed raised some critical questions about the state budget. State spending, he wrote, has seen a "whopping 40% increase" in the past four years. Where does that spending go? The Legislature has a proposal to raise $8 billion in...Tags: Health, Social Issues, Medical Services, Colleges and Universities, Family
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Those Coupon Books Serve a Need for Strapped Schools
Dawn Bonker is missing the point of coupon books ("The Ticking Timebook," Essay, Jan. 15). I have sold these books for Orange County nonprofits for the past 12 years. They are an integral part of the budget for many charities. Sadly, many organizations...Tags: Schools, Social Issues, Education, Public Schools, Emergency Planning
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Linked Charities Bank on the Chavez Name
Times Staff WriterKEENE, Calif. — Paul Chavez lives a stone's throw from the two-bedroom home where he grew up and his mother still resides. His commute is a short walk across a bucolic compound here in the Tehachapi Mountains to the nondescript building where he...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Marketing, Budgets and Budgeting, Hospitals and Clinics, Tuberculosis
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Finances of charity run by SEIU official scrutinized
A Bay Area officer of the scandal-clouded Service Employees International Union has collected double salaries, one as a city transit worker and the other from a charity that receives much of its funding from the labor organization and corporate interests,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Rentals, Career and Workplace, Minority Groups, Civil Rights
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1 in 3 would deny illegal immigrants social services
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOne-third of Americans want to deny social services, including public schooling and emergency room healthcare, to illegal immigrants, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found. Still, in a sign of ambivalence among voters about the emotionally charged...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Health, Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Illegal Immigrants
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