The BBC Radio 4 show You & Yours spoke to listeners about the impact of spending cuts in their area and found services that help sick, vulnerable people are starting to disappear. One listener, Sue, called in to explain how she was made redundant after …

His sister, Lulu Belle, married a coachman for wealthy lumberman and railroad investor Jason Easton; Poage's father, James, appears to have worked in the Eastons' stables as well. But after Lulu Belle died in 1887 and then James … They know Poage and …

Now, hundreds of Cubans are arriving in relatively affluent Brazil to shore up a decrepit health-care system that has become a national embarrassment. Two months after mass protests against the condition of public health and other substandard services, …

He could either teach gym in a portable with a few soccer balls and basketballs at a poor school or, just six miles away, take a job teaching at an affluent school with a formal gym and containers full of sports equipment. “I was blown away by the …

And despite the overall drop, Monroe County school districts maintained relatively the same rankings, with more affluent east side districts outperforming others. “People move here for the schools,” said Mary Sue Dehn, a Pittsford parent. “I have't …

While at first this was somewhat of a flat tax applied only to the more affluent, over the years it has metastasized into the over 77,000 pages of regulations that apply to each and every person today. In these pages are many tax breaks for the …

"In little more than a generation, an industrial economy that enabled people without much formal education to create stable families and communities has become a technocratic one in which most of the nation's wealth — in the form of both wages and …

Affluent areas had a much lower rate. Scottish Conservative health spokesman Jackson Carlaw said: “These are disturbing statistics, which will cause further strain on an already stretched health service. “It's imperative that research is now done to …

The return of the 95-year-old leader of the anti-apartheid movement to his home in an affluent neighborhood of Johannesburg allows his family to share time with him in a more intimate setting. Advertisement. The office of South African President Jacob …