Title: Festival reunions too costly for young people
Summary: The cost of returning home for the Spring Festival has become such a burden for young workers that many are choosing not to make the trip. "The high costs of the Spring Festival are a real financial burden for me," Song Pingyang, who works in Chongqing, said during an interview with Chongqing Evening News. Due to the economic recession, Song has not made a lot of money recently, with his monthly ...
Title: Young basketball players shoot 'Hoops for Haiti'
Summary: Their effort isn’t nearly so high-profile as this week’s Lionel Richie-Quincy Jones “We Are the World” remake or Jan. 22’s bicoastal George Clooney MTV telethon. But that hasn’t kept a group of young local athletes from organizing a commemorative bracelet sale — called Hoops for Haiti — to raise money for victims of the Caribbean island’s devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.
Summary: Rihanna seeks money for charityMIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Inspired by a young friend who died from leukemia, singer Rihanna is working to get help for those who suffer from the disease.Rihanna, pictured, was among the celebrities who submitted a request for funding to Pepsi’s Refresh Project, which doles out $20 million to various causes, and was at the foundation’s kickoff party Friday during Super ...
Title: Two Gloucester Township boys are robbed of snow-shoveling money, police say
Summary: GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP -- Police are searching for a man who they said robbed two young men of the money they earned shoveling snow, according to a report in The Courier-Post. The report said two 15 year olds were returning home...
Title: Money for Cigarette Restitution Fund vanishes in a puff of less smoking
Summary: ANNAPOLIS — Cancer research and substance abuse programs need to start looking for money elsewhere as the fund sustained by settlement money from lawsuits against three national tobacco companies gradually diminishes. Maryland’s Cigarette Restitution Fund budget is down almost $820,000, or about 11 percent from last year, reflecting the decline in smoking and a decrease [...]
Title: Rihanna, Mark Sanchez raise money for charities
Summary: MIAMI BEACH, FLA. — Inspired by a young friend who died from leukemia, singer Rihanna is working to get help for those who suffer from the disease.
Title: Boys & Girls clubhouse raises money for COTS
Summary: Published: Monday, February 8, 2010 at 3:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, February 5, 2010 at 10:44 a.m. They tackled the project head-on, raising money at a movie night, snack-shack sale, carnival and bake sale, among other things.
Summary: Millions of pounds are to be invested in frontline services to protect vulnerable children and young people in Swansea. Proposals for next year's Council budget are due to be discussed by Cabinet on Thursday.
