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Asda to give unemployed young people a helping hand
2014-09-12 12:58:10| Grocery - Topix.net
Asda is to offer free skills training to help tackle youth unemployment in Ballyclare as part of an initiative by the food and grocery industry. Youngsters from the Ballyclare area are being invited to see how they can gain the skills they need to get back into work when they visit Asda on September 17, as part of a campaign to tackle youth unemployment.
Jobless young people desert sinking Pacific islands
2014-09-03 17:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: TO SOME, it will smack of deserting a sinking ship. Young people are leaving their island homes in the Pacific and Caribbean in search of jobs and higher education. Without youthful citizens, small islands will struggle to cope with the effects of rising sea levels. So says a report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). "The lack of opportunity pushes the best and brightest to look elsewhere," says the report. The exodus from islands including Samoa, Granada, Antigua and Dominica accounts for...
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Thyroid Cancer in Young People Surge Fukushima Since Nuclear Meltdown
2014-08-25 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The impact of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown on the region`s young people is starting to add up. 104 of the area`s 300,000 young people who were under 18 at the time of the disaster have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shinbun reported yesterday. This form of cancer has been linked to radiation exposure. But, government officials in Fukushima say they do not believe the cases of thyroid gland cancer diagnosed or suspected in the 104 young people...
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Obama calls out climate deniers, asks young people to force climate change issue
2014-06-16 19:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: In giving the commencement address at the University of California-Irvine on Saturday, President Obama called on young people to push the climate change issue past its current partisan divide. The speech was particularly notable for Obamas forthright confrontation of climate change deniers. He took oblique shots at the silly pseudo-scientific proclamations of Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.). (Inhofe claimed last year that We`re in a cycle now that all the scientists...
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Young People and Women in the Utility Industry
2014-04-16 19:46:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Transmission & Distribution World Magazine's Paul Mauldin interviewed Kelly Joeckel from ONCOR about women and young workers in the utility industry. read more
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