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...seeds not only of a more effective rebuilding effort in Haiti, but of a new development strategy that's less about top-down, welfare-style aid and more about economy-stimulating engagement of the grassroots. "The old, more paternalistic way of doing charity was easier," says Brazilian aid worker Eliana Nicolini, a UNDP cash-for-work coordinator in Haiti who first helped bring the plan to Port-au-Prince a couple years ago. "This is different - I really believe it has longer-lasting development effects because it's the local community, not the foreign community, that's executing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Workfare Help Resurrect Quake-Ravaged Haiti? | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...always hope to have a team full of workers like Victoria,” Delaney-Smith says. “She’s the hardest worker I’ve ever coached and constantly works to get better...

Author: By B. marjorie Gullick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lippert Takes Her Game to The Next Level | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...Tuesday. Accounts of NHTSA's failure to piece together a pattern of customer complaints have made the group one of the saga's twin villains. "Shame on you Toyota, for being so greedy, and shame on you, NHTSA, for not doing your job," said Rhonda Smith, a former social worker from Tennessee who, during emotional testimony, recounted a 2006 incident in which her Lexus ES 350 accelerated to more than 100 m.p.h. despite repeated braking. NHTSA "failed all along the way," Joan Claybrook, who formerly led the agency and who is scheduled to speak at Wednesday's hearing, told TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress Puts Toyota (and Toyoda) in the Hot Seat | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

Much of the opposition is coming from workers from GM plants in Saginaw and Grand Rapids, Mich., and Lockport and Rochester, N.Y., where UAW members say they are being pushed to renegotiate a contract that included concessions they signed only last year, when the plants still belonged to the bankrupt Delphi Corp. "We haven't seen anything in writing yet, but we know they're coming for us again," says a GM worker from Grand Rapids. "We also know they want a 'no strike' clause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UAW Anger at Contract Concessions on the Rise | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...membership is screaming 'Hell no!' on this deal," says a GM worker from Rochester. "We will no longer allow them to hold the old 'Do it, or we will close your plant' b.s. over us any longer. Our feeling is basically, Go ahead. They have already taken too much for us to care anymore." (See 10 milestones on the road to GM's bankruptcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UAW Anger at Contract Concessions on the Rise | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

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