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4 days ago | 
makeadifference.media | Matt Russell
Topics such as DEI and sustainability have dominated headlines in the last six months, largely due to what’s happening across the pond with the recent US administration dismantling federal programmes and corporates visibility rolling back on these policies.
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1 month ago | 
observer.co.uk | Paul Hayward |Matt Russell
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1 month ago | 
sbj.net | Matt Russell
I’ve practiced law in southwest Missouri for over 20 years as a prosecutor and a criminal defense attorney. I’ve handled cases from simple speeding tickets to murder trials and faced attorneys with big firms and even bigger budgets behind them. But the best attorney I ever faced answered his own phones. He carried his own bags. He had a very successful practice. But he never ran so much as an ad in the paper.
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2 months ago | 
reba.global | Matt Russell
The last few years have drained employees, but employers can combat rising numbers of sick days with financial and wellbeing support Turning the clocks back doesn’t just signal the end of daylight-saving time, for employers it also marks the start of flu season with staff sickness set to spike over the next few months.
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2 months ago | 
kansascity.com | Robert Leonard |Matt Russell
Arlyn Kauffman was grinding feed for 20,000 layer hens when we pulled up to his farm south of Osceola, Iowa. "I didn't realize it would be so big," said Bob, a coauthor of this column, about the 500-foot-long building, nearly the length of two football fields. He'd shown up with a set of assumptions that Arlyn's production system was going to look more like the idyllic family farm with a red barn and livestock roaming free.
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2 months ago | 
thehrdirector.com | Matt Russell
New research reveals that almost nine in ten (87%) workers in the healthcare sector want their employer to invest more in employee benefits packages this year. However, the healthcare sector is the least likely to increase investment – just one in five (18%) healthcare businesses say they are planning to invest more in employee benefits this year. Eight in ten (81%) healthcare workers admit they want more financial support at work, higher than the UK average of 74% for all sectors.
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Mar 17, 2025 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Kurt Meyer |Laura Belin |Matt Russell |Sue Dinsdale
"Any fool can destroy trees." Is Uncle Sam a fool? Monday, Mar 17 2025 0 Comments Kurt Meyer writes a weekly column for the Nora Springs – Rockford Register and the Substack newsletter Showing Up, where this essay first appeared. He served as chair of the executive committee (the equivalent of board chair) of Americans for Democratic Action, America’s most experienced liberal organization.
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Mar 15, 2025 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Herb Strentz |Matt Russell |Laura Belin |Sue Dinsdale
Herb Strentz was dean of the Drake School of Journalism from 1975 to 1988 and professor there until retirement in 2004. He was executive secretary of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council from its founding in 1976 to 2000. Lutheran Services in Iowa is struggling after the federal government reneged on a $1.5 million commitment to fund the nonprofit’s work in welcoming and aiding legal immigrants and refugees to Iowa.
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Mar 15, 2025 | 
harrisondaily.com | Matt Russell
Posted 3/15/25Hidden in the back of an antique table filled with photos of children and grandkids was a small picture of a young girl in a faded, silver frame. Dressed in a cheerleader uniform her beauty was obvious and her captivating smile warmed the heart. The picture looked like a Norman Rockwell painting reflecting the best of America. But nearly 90 years of life had taken its toll on her once athletic body.
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Mar 8, 2025 | 
harrisondaily.com | Matt Russell
Posted 3/8/25Being a person who relies heavily on facts and common sense, I’ve always had a hard time accepting the premise of miracles. Regardless if it is a claim of divine intervention, supernatural forces or some secular occurrence when the impossible somehow becomes reality, if I couldn’t explain it, then I attributed it to just dumb luck. This item is available in full to subscribers.
