Mental Illness Awareness Week is an opportunity to stop the whispering and speak up about mental illness to our friends, co-workers and legislators.
And the dealers, suppliers, workers, regulators, and legislators in every country who now have to deal with the aftermath feel betrayed as well.
Child care advocates, day care workers and Westchester legislators plan to join the county executive in lobbying Albany for more day care funds for 2001.
Having recently enacted a big and painful package of pension cuts for state workers and teachers, Rhode Island legislators say they are in no mood to help a city's retirees who stripped their own pension fund, often collecting disability pensions when they were well enough to work.
He recruited Nissan to build an auto assembly plant employing 4,000 workers and worked with Democratic legislators to overhaul public education.
The East Room was packed with advocates for civil rights and workers rights; the legislators, who included House and Senate leaders and two moderate Republicans — Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, both of Maine — shook Mr. Obama's hand effusively (some, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, received presidential pecks on the cheek) as he took the stage.
In addition to the government, UNICEF's Child Protection Program works with a wide range of partners, including civil society, the private sector, law enforcement officials, legislators, social workers and children, in an attempt to create a comprehensive framework that protects all children from all forms of abuse, violence, and exploitation.
It should be seen by doctors, nurses and medical students, but it should also be seen by poets, philosophers, journalists, social workers, legislators and historians.
At today's meeting of the County Legislature, union officials and home health care workers urged legislators to support the bill.
