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Dixie La Pierre is a 55-year-old who remembers what it was like to grow up poor in New Orleans.When she was 10, her class was having a McDonald’s that she knew her mother couldn’t afford.Her teacher randomly selected her to do chores so she too could participate in the class…
By Jatindra , Saurabh Sharma and Ira Dugal ODISHA, India (Reuters) – Nearly two years of elevated food inflation in India is leaving less in the lunch boxes of impoverished children, as government funded school meals suffer cutbacks because of rising prices of vegetables, fruits and pulses. The three-decades old…
A Missouri-based pension fund is accusing Intel, in a class action lawsuit, of hiding problems about its in-house chips manufacturing business ahead of the company’s reported net loss and mass layoff of 15,000 jobs.Intel on August 1 announced a 15% reduction of its workforce after reporting a net loss of…
18 people have died after a small passenger airplane crashed during takeoff in Nepal’s capital city, Kathmandu.The plane’s captain is the only remaining survivor of the 19 onboard, including two crew members and 17 technicians of the airline, who were traveling to Pokhara, reportedly for aircraft maintenance.All 18 bodies have…
Weeks before the June presidential debate, the Biden campaign had sought to shake up the dynamics of the race, agreeing for the president to take the stage with former President Donald Trump.Biden’s team wanted the debate to crystallize what they’ve long argued: that the president was well-equipped to serve in…
I made it to vice president at Amazon after eight years at the company despite doing a poor job managing my career. My advancement came from hard work and luck, but I had no real plan.Formal education trains us in functional skills like law, design, and engineering, but students aren’t…
Investing.com – Graincorp Ltd (ASX:) released its H1 2024 results on Thursday, which align with the company’s profit warning issued the previous week. The underlying EBITDA for H1 2024 stood at $164m, and the underlying NPAT was $57m. The company also declared a fully franked interim dividend of 14 cents…
A report about a rural bachelor who can’t afford a $70,000 dowry in China was met with backlash on Monday.Such a bridal price is many times over what a typical rural worker earns in a year.But people on social media say men who fixate on expensive dowries are simply not…
