Apr 12, 2011 ~ what IS working

ECONOMY

learm about the stimulus, taxes, jobs, auto bailout, reform, and signs of success

HEALTH CARE

The affordable Care Act helps families, reduces cost, and deserves our support.

EDUCATION

When government, teachers, parents and the community working together, our schools improve.

ENVIRONMENT

Americans conserve, stimulus boosts economy, discoveries are made daily

COMMUNITY

Working with neighbors, non profits and government agencies we can make a diference.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Connie Siskowski: support for youth caregivers

Posted by Linda H on 8:00:00 AM

Connie Siskowski was her grandfather's main caregiver as he battled the final stages of chronic heart disease. She helped him walk, bathed and dressed him, gave him his medications and slept in the living the room so she could be closer to him in case he needed anything. She was the first one to see and feel that he was no longer breathing. At the time, Siskowski was just 13.

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Bill Cosby Making Education More Equitable in New Haven

Posted by Linda H on 8:00:00 AM

Bill Cosby is best known for the generation-defining Cosby Show, but the 73-year-old also holds a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Massachusetts, and has long advocated for educational equity and excellence. Now he's working to address the education disparity between wealthier and whiter Americans and lower income, mostly minority students. This "achievement gap" is a nationwide problem, but Cosby's focusing first on the New Haven, Connecticut area, one of the areas where it's widest.

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