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Regional Roundup -- #DontDoubleMyRate
Posted by on April 25, 2012 at 12:05 PM EDTAfter President Obama traveled to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Colorado at Boulder to have a vital conversation with students regarding federal student loans, the papers and television stations in both states provide a glimpse of the local response to his visits.
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Report from USDA: Supporting Cutting-Edge Efforts to Reduce America’s Reliance on Fossil Fuel
Posted by on April 13, 2012 at 9:58 AM EDTLast year, USDA provided biomass project funding assistance for a total of 52 projects with just over $31 million in grant and loan note guarantees
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The JOBS Act: Encouraging Startups, Supporting Small Businesses
Posted by on April 5, 2012 at 4:12 PM EDTFor the first time, Americans will be able to go online and invest in small businesses and entrepreneurs, which will allow small and young firms to expand and hire more quickly
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Solely Fulfilled by a Life of Service
Posted by on March 29, 2012 at 12:11 PM EDTBernarda Wong finds that the her joy comes not only from helping others, but from stopping to see the changes that have made peoples' lives better. As a founder and President of the Chinese American Service League (CASL), she has the opportunity to see the lifechanging effects of her work each day.
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“All Right, Let’s Plant!” The Fourth Annual WH Kitchen Garden Planting
Posted by on March 27, 2012 at 5:51 PM EDTThe First Lady kicks off the fourth annual White House Kitchen Garden planting with the help of some very special gardeners-- students from all across the country who wrote to her about the hard work they've put in to promoting healthy lifestyles in their schools and communities.
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Unifying the Effects of the Affordable Care Act Across Communities
Posted by on March 21, 2012 at 10:52 AM EDTACA "WIN" started as a grassroots program in Iowa, but with the help of Carmen Morales-Board and other nurses in the surrounding Bakersfield, California area, it has grown into a several county-wide initiative at the helm of the upcoming Public Health Nursing Conference.
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White House Rural Council Sponsors "Working Lands and Healthy Watersheds Roundtable"
Posted by on March 19, 2012 at 10:45 AM EDTRoundtable brought together folks from across the country with experience in farming, ranching, conservation, and water quality to share their experience in how to more effectively and efficiently invest resources to improve water quality for rural communities.
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Breaking the Cycle of Poverty, Microfinancing a Community
Posted by on March 15, 2012 at 12:55 PM EDTGrace Philipp and the members of Social Entrepreneurs of Grinnell (SEG), drive economic literacy in their community and around the world, by supporting "entrepreneurial energy" in all people.
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Talking American Manufacturing at Iowa State University
Posted by on March 7, 2012 at 7:32 PM EDTThe Vice President talked about the reasons that manufacturing matters—not just to people who might one day work in manufacturing like the engineering students in the audience, but to the entire U.S. economy and to the American middle class
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New Data: The Affordable Care Act in Your State
Posted by on March 5, 2012 at 8:30 AM EDTThe Obama Administration releases a new source of data, Health Reform: Results in Your State, to show how the Affordable Care Act's benefits and protections are helping Americans across the country.
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