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Newsmaker Focuses on Finding Jobs for Veterans
Two veterans at the forefront of helping soldiers’ transition from the military to civilian employment discussed programs at a Club Newsmaker May 16. Steve Gonzalez of the American Legion and Bill Brigman, a senior research analyst Solid LLC, a policy analysis company, said the Pentagon spent $874 million on unemployment insurance, not counting the Air Force, in fiscal 2011. Stakeholders are coming together because not only do you want to increase veterans’ employment, “but also how do you increase the workforce, how do you allow for companies, how do you allow for industry to access these…
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Rubio unveils retirement-reform plan, but is cautious on politics at luncheon
With the possibility of a presidential run by him in 2016 serving as the elephant in the room, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) unveiled a new plan to reform retirement benefits during a National Press Club luncheon May 13. Rubio's proposal would allow average Americans to join federal retirement accounts similar to those enjoyed by lawmakers. In addition, it would gradually raise the retirement age for younger workers, lower the growth rate of Social Security benefits for wealthier Americans and eliminate the Social Security payroll tax for those who choose to work after reaching retirement age.…
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Industry experts: Partnerships between schools, local businesses can close manufacturing skills gap
You have to start them young to get them interested, and it has to be a community effort. That’s the message business and education leaders in the U.S.'s manufacturing and energy sectors hammered home at a May 6 National Press Club Newsmakers event, where they emphasized the importance of young people in addressing the growing skills gap in the two industries. America’s manufacturing sector alone is looking to fill some 600,000 skilled positions at a time when jobs are badly needed. Yet,few workers have the necessary skills to fill the jobs, even though manufacturing is rebounding and…
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When not fighting Germans, GIs in "The Big Red One' raised hell, says author at Book Event
“The Big Red One” was the best infantry division in the U.S. Army in World War II, but its members were rabble-rousers when not fighting the Germans, revealed John C. McManus, a leading authority on the Normandy invasion of June 6, 1944, at a National Club book event May 5. That was only one insight McManus shared about the famed division in discussing his book, “The Dead and Those About to Die: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach." In another, McManus said that although The Big Red One – officially the Army’s First Infantry Division – fought well during the D-Day combat, several things went…
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Voter education group, at Newsmaker, unveils pilot program to connect voters
Voter Empowerment Action Project (VEAP) President Yvette Lewis announced formation of a new citizen-to-citizen outreach program, called Voter Connect, to connect voters across all states, at a May 5 National Press Club Newsmaker. VEAP, formed to educate voters about their state’s election laws, will pilot Voter Connect in North Carolina, Lewis said. The pilot program, unveiled one day before the state's May 6 primaries, aims to improve voter turnout and assist voters navigate new voting legislation by connecting North Carolina voters with Maryland volunteers. VEAP chose North Carolina,…
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Women stuck in mid-life change can reinvent themselves, Marlo Thomas says at Book Rap
Women who are forced to “reinvent” themselves because they are stuck in dead-end jobs, laid off or suddenly divorced don’t need to stop their dreams of living fulfilling lives, television icon and author Marlo Thomas told a National Press Club Book Rap May 2. Thomas, a multiple award-winning actress best known for starring in the 1966-71 TV sitcom “That Girl,” appeared at the Club to discuss her latest book, “It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over,” which details inspirational stories of women in their 40s who managed to start new careers using nothing but their inborn talent. Charming her audience…
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Library now has copy of three-volume 'Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics'
As journalists covering politics are gearing up for mid-term elections, the National Press Club's National Journalism Institute now has a resource to offer those interested in the latest available research on the impact of social media on the U.S. political process. "Its scope encompasses the disruptive technologies and activities that are changing basic patterns in American politics, and the amazing transformations that social media use is rendering in other political systems heretofore resistant to democratization and change," said Publisher Sage/CQ of the just-published three-volume set of…
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National Press Club podcast explores social-media usage while at work
Should people be allowed to use social media while they are on the job? For communication professionals, the answer may seem like a no-brainer, but National Press Club member and human resources expert Aliah Wright says more than 40 percent of the nation's companies don't let employees use sites like Facebook and Twitter at work. In the latest edition of the Press Club's podcast "Update-1," Wright tells Club member Jason Athony about why it's important to lower that number and the new book she's authored is an effort to do so. She also shares some entertaining anecdotes about how mingling…
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Photographers advised how to protect rights to their work
The instant a photographer presses the button to open the shutter, he or she creates a copyrighted "work" that no one can legally use without the photographer's permission, Mickey H. Osterreicher told approximately 70 attendees at the April 29 evening presentation on "Copyright and Social Media" in the National Press Club's First Amendment Lounge. Nevertheless, the Internet, social media, and myths about the rights of those who create online "content" are robbing photographers of these rights, said Osterreicher, who is general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA).…
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Herblock winner's cartoons displayed at the Club
Four new cartoons – from Herblock Award winner Jen Sorensen – are now on display at the National Press Club's Reliable Source to highlight the wall devoted to a hallmark of journalism, editorial cartooning and its impact on the public discourse. Sorensen, a freelance cartoonist whose sharp take on the political and social scene earned her the annual award named for longtime Washington Post cartoonist Herb Block, joined Press Club President Myron Belkind and others for lunch April 30 at the Club to view the new display. Sorensen, of Austin, Texas, said she was excited to haveher work shown at…
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