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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.