RAGS TO RICHES

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AmeriCorps’ fate turned around sharply last week when congressional negotiators agreed to a massive funding boost.

GIFT GUIDES

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Forbes magazine has published its annual ratings of 200 of the nation’s largest nonprofit groups.

BANKING SETTLEMENT

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ACORN has reached a proposed settlement in its suit against the infamous mortgage lender Household International.

Hunger

ACROSS THE BOARD

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Black and Latino students trail their white classmates on every one of more than a dozen predictors of academic achievement.

LAST CHANCE–FOR NOW

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If Congress doesn’t extend the feds’ emergency unemployment benefits program next week, it will expire while their on holiday break.

SECTION 8 SAVE

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Congress has stepped up in the eleventh hour to avert the possibility that there would not be enough money to fund even existing vouchers, let alone offer new ones.