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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!(Sept. 9) -- Australia and New Zealand top a "world giving index" in a new charitable behavior study that finds happier people are more likely to give money than wealthy folks. The United States and Switzerland tied for the fifth spot in the survey, conducted by the U.K.-based Charities Aid Foundation, which assessed countries in terms of money given and time spent by their citizens working for charities. Canada and Ireland tied for the third spot, with the Netherlands coming in seventh, followed by the United Kingdom. Sri Lanka, in the eighth position, was the only Asian country in the top ...
While reading the New York Times Motherlode blog the other day, I was struck by a piece about current trends in American education. Apparently, many public school districts in the United States are increasingly turning to parents in order to cover budgetary shortfalls. In some cases, it's the parent-teacher associations that are spearheading the movement to make up for things like teacher's salaries and supplies when school boards can't. In other cases, schools are making direct appeals to parents for monetary contributions, sometimes making them mandatory. There's a lot to say about this ...
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