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Michelle Obama: Vets Shortchanged On Jobs, Civilians Don't Understand Military
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyU.S. service members receive some of the best technical and management training and experience in the world, but when they return to civilian life, they are often overlooked as job candidates because employers don't give them credit for their skills, First Lady Michelle Obama said Thursday. "Members of our military master state-of-the-art technologies -- some of the most advanced information and medical and communications systems in the world. They run the world's most complex operations -- distributing supplies to thousands of locations, moving tons of equipment halfway across the globe," ...
Michelle Obama Urges Global Meeting Leaders to Hire Veterans
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyNEW YORK -- At a conference traditionally dominated by international concerns, First Lady Michelle Obama chose instead to focus on an issue much closer to home in her speech Thursday that closed the sixth annual Clinton Global Initiative. Drawing on one of the event's themes of "Harnessing Human Potential," Mrs. Obama encouraged the audience of business and nonprofit leaders to employ former military service members and their spouses. Following an introduction by President Obama -- who praised his wife's "moral voice and her moral center" -- the first lady made the case for engaging ...
Obama's Radical Foreign Policy Plan: The Goal is Development, Not Aid
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyNEW YORK -- "The U.S. is changing the way we do business." With those words, President Obama, who arrived here Wednesday and took center stage late afternoon on Day 3 of the massive United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit, announced an ambitious, even radical, overhaul of American foreign policy, investment, and practice: the U.S. Global Development Policy. The project marks the first time development has been given such a high priority in an administration, calling for development to be seen as a "core pillar" in American power. Acknowledging that while great progress had been ...
Lance Armstrong Weighs In on a Silent Killer: Cancer in the Developing World
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyNEW YORK -- Sexual violence, communicable disease, environmental catastrophe and economic inequality have dominated the roster of debates and panels here at the Clinton Global Initiative, which began on Tuesday, so it seemed unusual to have a heretofore distinctly "wealthy" problem crop up in the discussions about the developing world. But, as far too many of its victims keenly understand, cancer knows no borders. In fact, two-thirds of cancer deaths occur in the developing world. Attendees were also told that 40 years ago, developing nations shouldered 15 percent of the cancer caseload. In ...
Girl Effect: What if a Girl Could Change the World? What if a Video Can?
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyWhat if you knew that the answer to the world's problems was as big and as small as a 12-year-old girl? How would you convey that fact? How would you promote it, nudge it into public consciousness? How would you push us to see it, really see it, rather than glaze past it, like the man you passed on the way out of the subway, holding that "Homeless" sign, his coffee cup tattered and filled with pennies, quarters, the occasional dollar bill? What, in other words, makes us stop and really see? The Nike Foundation's Girl Effect has become a champion of winnowing its way into our hearts, ...
Dirty Cookstoves, a Global Health Threat, Targeted in $51-Million Program
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyImagine your kitchen when you start to cook. Do you collect the wood? Nudge the coals? (The times you camped out don't count.) Does smoke fill your home, eyes and mouth, and blacken your walls? For millions around the world, the basic daily function of cooking is a dire health threat. The World Health Organization calls dirty cookstoves one of the top five health problems globally, a problem which causes two million preventable deaths each year. Speaking of women the world over toiling over dirty cookstoves, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told a midday plenary session of the ...
Bill Clinton's Global Initiative: High Rollers Brainstorm Disaster Relief
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyThe Big Dog is back. To the triumphant strains of John Williams, former president Bill Clinton took to the stage to open the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting in New York on Tuesday morning. In the audience of 1,300 were 67 heads of state from 90 countries and six continents, 600 business leaders, and over 500 representatives from international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) -- as well as a fair share of celebrities, political minds and policy wonks. CGI, as it's known to the initiated, is the sort of high-roller pow-wow where Jesse Jackson might be seen grabbing a ...
The Un-Gifting Movement, or How Do You Wrap a Goat?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyWhether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukah, Eid or Festivus, I've got news for you: gift-giving is so-o-o-o ten minutes ago. A series of initiatives -- large and small -- suggest that presents -- at least in the wrapped-with-a-bow, purchased-in-a-store variety -- are rapidly going the way of the Post Office. ...
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