2017年5月4日星期四

Yahoo! News: World News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World News


Having trouble getting a job as an older worker? This woman has some advice.

Posted: 04 May 2017 02:43 PM PDT

Having trouble getting a job as an older worker? This woman has some advice.Two years ago, Elizabeth White hit a wall.


The values clash behind Republican health-care reform

Posted: 04 May 2017 02:17 PM PDT

The values clash behind Republican health-care reformRepublicans, who today narrowly won a House vote aimed at dismantling key parts of Obamacare, have opened themselves up to being cast as heartless by political foes and many constituents. As Republicans look at a health-care system that's imposing ever higher costs on both average Americans and on the federal budget, they argue that principles like free-market competition and consumer choice could prove vital to making health care more affordable and accessible. In tandem, other conservative values are being championed: limited government, turning power back to the states, and curbing federal deficits.


Better housing as a path out of poverty: a tough test in Houston

Posted: 04 May 2017 10:46 AM PDT

Better housing as a path out of poverty: a tough test in HoustonIyoba Moshay had just started her shift when she got a text from Alvin, her 7th-grade son. Ms. Moshay gulped, and went back to her job tending bar downtown at the Houston Astros' stadium. For Moshay, a single mother, it was one more reason to wish she could move to a different part of town, far from the crime and poverty of her all-minority neighborhood.


The man who is 'not Le Pen' – and would be president of France

Posted: 04 May 2017 10:28 AM PDT

The man who is 'not Le Pen' – and would be president of FranceThe love story of Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte, who is 24 years his senior, has long generated gossip. It was the singular bond he shared with his late maternal grandmother, Germaine Nogues, who he called Manette, where observers see the first inkling of a person who would live unconstrained by convention, who would show a willingness and even a need to be different and undaunted – ultimately poising him to win the French presidency on Sunday. Intellectually exacting, his grandmother wasn't the type "to bake cookies," as his biographer puts it.


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