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A Jobs Crisis We Can Solve

By Sarah van Gelder President Obama is proposing important steps toward doing what Americans have been asking for since the financial collapse of 2008—putting a focus on families and jobs. To create real prosperity, though, Washington will have to deal with three main drivers of our economic malaise: massive inequality such that the super wealthy […]

Husband and wife physician team join Akron Children’s Hospital

AKRON – Akron Children’s Hospital welcomes Larry Patterson, MD, as the director of nephrology and his wife, Mary Patterson, MD, as medical director of simulation services. They come to Akron Children’s from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Larry Patterson will lead a team of board-certified pediatric nephrologists in treating children and teens with kidney […]

Raymond John Wean Foundation awards $150,000 in grants

WARREN – Directors of The Raymond John Wean Foundation have awarded grants totaling over $150,000 to seven area organizations committed to such issues as improved early childhood education, job training, nonprofit agency collaboration and education. The latest round of grants, approved by the Directors of The Raymond John Wean Foundation at a meeting Sept. 7, […]

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Funding To Create Jobs, Improve Rural Electric Infrastructure

WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that 27 rural electric cooperative utilities will receive funding for generation and transmission projects, distribution facilities and smart grid technologies. These loans will create jobs and finance rural electric utility improvements benefiting more than 28,000 rural customers in 18 states. “Improving the electric infrastructure in rural areas […]

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