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UN Summit to Approve 15-Year Blueprint to Eradicate Poverty

World leaders open a summit Friday to formally approve an ambitious and costly 15-year blueprint to eradicate extreme poverty, combat climate change and address more than a dozen other major global issues. Implementing the new development goals – expected to cost between $3.5 trillion and $5 trillion every year until 2030 – is expected to …

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10 Highest Paying Jobs in 2015 You Don’t Need a College Degree For

As millions of college graduates prepare to walk across the stage to receive their diplomas and join the workforce, they face an economy with high unemployment rates, increasing competition for jobs and mounting debt from their college expenses. Compare that to currently working employees who didn’t attend college but have spent the past four years …

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Billionaire Offers to Buy Island for Refugees Pouring Into Europe

While Europeans are offering up houses to refugees, an Egyptian billionaire wants to buy an island where tens of thousands of refugees can live and work. Naguib Sawiris is offering to buy an uninhabited island from either Italy or Greece large enough to sustain up to 200,000 people. “All I need is the permission,” Sawiris …

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Walmart Pledges $25 Million To Disaster Recovery on Katrina Anniversary

In observance of the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the Walmart Foundation announced that they will be making a $25 million commitment over a five year span to support organizations that aid in disaster recovery and resiliency efforts. In addition to the $25 million, the company and its foundation will also be awarding nearly $3 …

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Humans of New York Raises $2M for Humans of Pakistan Living in Bondage

In just five days, a popular photographer has raised two million dollars to help fight an illegal practice that borders on slavery. Brandon Stanton, who publishes the popular “Human of New York” blog, has been documenting bonded labor in Pakistan. He launched a crowdfunding project on Indigogo hoping to raise $100,000 to fight the practice, …

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