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SOURCE: New York Times
5/5/2020
Irish Return an Old Favor, Helping Native Americans Battling the Virus
More than 170 years ago, the Choctaw Nation sent $170 to starving Irish families during the potato famine. Now hundreds of Irish people are repaying that old kindness.
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4/12/2020
The President vs. The Epidemic: FDR's Polio Crusade
by Dave Welky
No president can end an epidemic single handedly, but they can inspire a popular movement that eradicates a disease. Such was the case with Franklin Roosevelt and polio.
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10-26-17
We Are Spending Six Times More on Halloween Candy and Costumes than We Do to Feed the Poor Overseas
by William Lambers
Can’t we do better?
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12-13-16
How One of the Great Charity Rainmakers of All Time Raised Money
by Robert E. Wright
His name was Edward Everett. And he practically invented the techniques we still use today.
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