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- Qvisory ; new, non-profit online community for young Americans
- Service Employees International Union ; creator of Qvisory
Union Plans Advisory Tool for Young Workers
May 18, 2007
The New York Times
By Steven Greenhouse
Summary/excerpts
Helped by start-up money from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Service Employees International Union has created a nonprofit organization that plans to help young workers who lack health insurance and are saddled with debt.
The nonprofit, Qvisory Tools for Life, will provide health insurance and financial advice and will begin doing so this fall, largely through its Web site, qvisory.org. Qvisory plans to give career advice and have blogs and forums in which workers 18 though 35 can discuss jobs and various services.
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Andrew Stern, president of the 1.8-million-member service employees’ union, said he hoped Qvisory might get its members to make themselves heard the way MoveOn.org does. Qvisory, which is open to union members and nonmembers, is likely to promote issues like higher minimum wage, broader health coverage and greater government support of child care, he said.
The service employees’ union put up $500,000 to create Qvisory, and the Rockefeller Foundation announced yesterday that it had committed $1 million to the new group.
Copyright 2007 The New York Times
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