Philanthropy in the US fills the welfare gap
The government’s suggestion of capping tax relief on charitable giving would be unthinkable in the US, where philanthropy is a full time job for some of America’s richest individuals.
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The government’s suggestion of capping tax relief on charitable giving would be unthinkable in the US, where philanthropy is a full time job for some of America’s richest individuals.
Michael Crick rounds up the runners and riders for the newly created posts of Police Commissioner.
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Ahead of next week’s vote to criminalise squatting, Channel 4 News investigates why squatters take over empty homes – and why the government, and many homeowners, want it to be made illegal.
The company is proposing to close 36 of its 54 factories with potential compulsory redundancies of almost three quarters of its workforce of 2,300 disabled workers.
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Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson returns to Dale Farm three months after travellers there were evicted.
Wikipedia joins a wave of online protest against the proposed US legislation Sopa – which it says will damage the “free and open internet” – by going offline for 24 hours on Wednesday.
Twenty years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev fell from power and the Soviet Union collapsed. This year, protests are sweeping Russia’s cities. Is Russia facing a moment of change? Channel 4 News investigates.