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How the pandemic concentrated pressures on small churches—and how the body of Christ is stepping up to help, one $3,000 grant at a time.

Philadelphia pastor Kevin Cropper’s heart sank last month when he saw a message asking for food among the prayer requests emailed to his church.

“It was a request for something tangible, and we didn’t have it,” Cropper said.

His congregation, Ark of Safety Christian Church, had canceled its weekly food distribution since it ran out of donations when it stopped gathering in March. “It makes you feel bad because isn’t that what our mission is? We want to be able to help in this type of crisis, but we need the resources to do it.”

That’s the problem with being a small, inner-city black church during a pandemic. Black adults are more than twice as likely as whites or Hispanic Americans to know someone who has been hospitalized or died due to COVID-19. Their communities are afraid, grieving, and suffering from the virus themselves; and they are far less likely to have the staff, budgets, or space to help as much as they feel called.

“We are in the city. We don’t have acres, we stay close to each other, and it’s very easy to spread the virus,” said Kato Hart Jr., pastor of Hold the Light Ministries, a Church of God in Christ (COGIC) congregation in Detroit.

American counties with a higher-than-average proportion of black residents now account for half of coronavirus cases and 60 percent of deaths. Even in a church of 50, word keeps spreading of which members have lost relatives to the virus: aunties, uncles, grandparents. Hart has lost fellow brothers in ministry, citing a letter from denominational leadership saying 30 COGIC bishops have fallen to COVID-19—including a dozen in Michigan alone.

“We’re in a fight, and we need help. These megachurches, ...

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How politicians and leaders on both the Left and Right fail to adequately aid mothers.

Every election cycle, women’s issues are a flashpoint in the public square. This year is no exception: Candidates on both sides are debating abortion, equal pay, family leave, and maternal mortality.

These political clashes often hinge on deeply held views about who women are, how they’re wired, and what they need. One of the most salient aspects of female identity is our maternal nature—the inclination (broadly speaking) to foster enduring ties with our offspring. Gender essentialism is fraught with land mines and dangerous generalities, and not all women experience the maternal pull. Nonetheless, most of us would agree that women’s biology is in fact distinctive, and the innate potential to bear children and bond with them not only carries great weight for the family but also shapes our commonwealth.

The political Left and Right mishandle these maternal instincts in different ways. For hard-line progressives, female “nature” is a social construct to embrace or escape—it doesn’t serve a normative purpose. We see this view play out legislatively. Liberal Democrats rightly pride themselves on defending family-friendly policies. But they concurrently promote pro-abortion policies that treat a woman’s bond with her child as entirely voluntary and even arbitrary—severed here, supported there. “To Planned Parenthood, an undesired life is no life at all,” writes Russell Moore in National Review.

Those on the Right have a nearly inverse enigma. Both center-right and far-right Republicans tend to value a woman’s distinct maternal nature and the children who come with it. But that helping hand comes up short in other arenas, as mothers are too often left to ...

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Staying up-to-date on the most recent cases, laws, and other current issues in the areas of employment, equality, and human rights is essential to keep you or your company from becoming entangled in costly employment-related disputes. Focus on Canadian Employment and Equality Rights newsletter helps employers and HR practitioners stay compliant and avoid such conflicts. It provides reviews and analysis from various experts on the most topical issues in the areas of employment, equality, and human rights. Practical features such as case notes, legislative updates, Question and Answer, and Did You Know? offer valuable insights on a wide range of topics, such as workplace diversity and accommodation, employment agreements, absenteeism, sexual harassment, termination, constructive dismissal, drug and alcohol testing, privacy rights, and pay equity, to name a few.

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Canadian Employment Safety and Health Guide newsletter also includes information on legislative changes throughout Canada. It informs readers of new case law and reminds of them impending compliance deadlines, new penalties, and fines for contravening the law.

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If you work in the employment and safety area, this should be the only reference resource you'll need. It covers federal, provincial, and territorial laws and regulations and gives you analysis of a broad range of topics (see below). You'll also have commentary on new developments and emerging trends in every Canadian jurisdiction plus summaries of decisions from the courts, Workers' Compensation Tribunals and Labour Relations Boards. In addition, it monitors trends in occupational health and looks at their legal implications.

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With the launch of the new Internet platform, the updates to your research library are delivered immediately from the editors' desktop to you. The CD and looseleaf subscriptions are updated monthly.

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Published: October 2012

Calculating Lost Labor Productivity in Construction Claims demonstrates how to plan for increased labor costs and minimize the risks; identify the causes of the cost overrun; introduce appropriate evidence of lost labor productivity to establish damages; and resolve disputes through prior agreement. Case law support for awards and denials of compensation for each type of claim is analyzed, along with the studies or techniques used to prove damages. You will understand how to quickly and easily compute lost labor productivity caused by a variety of factors.

This book offers easy-to-read sample charts and graphs and applies various empirical and academic studies and models. You also get analysis of productivity losses from the Department of Labor, Construction Industry Institute, NECA and more.

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• Chapter 1: Labor Productivity Defined
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• Chapter 3: Acceleration
• Chapter 4: The Effect of Change Orders on Productivity
• Chapter 5: Productivity Losses Related to Weather
• Chapter 6: Experience Curves
• Chapter 7: Project Characteristics That Affect Labor
• Chapter 8: Project Management Impacts on Productivity
• Chapter 9: Nonwage Labor Cost
• Chapter 10: Measuring Productivity
• Chapter 11: Predicting Labor Productivity Losses
• Chapter 12: Presentation of Productivity Analysis
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Whether you have to handle a CPP or OAS claim, calculate and remit withholdings on employee compensation, or ascertain the employment status of a contractor, Annotated Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security Act, 14th Edition, 2015 is for you. This handy work is the only portable, one-stop resource in this area for professionals on the go.

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• Amendments implemented by the Jobs, Growth and Long-Term Prosperity Act (Bill C-38), including a summary of the new appeal regime and annotations to the provisions creating the Social Security Tribunal
• All significant Federal Court of Appeal decisions on vital issues such as whether a per diem compensation rate is ‘‘fixed and ascertainable’’ (MNR (Canada) v. Ontario); right to appeal on CPP matters from the Tax Court of Canada (Davitt); online accessibility for claimants (Jodhan); interest award where erroneous information given by the Minister (Bartlett); approach of tribunal where claimant doesn’t appear (Evans); need to refer to every piece of evidence (Simpson and Brennan); motions in the Federal Court of Appeal (McMeekin); evidence on judicial review (McLaughlin); and extension of time (Daoud).
• Important Federal Court decisions, including new authority on when written reasons for granting leave to appeal to the PAB are mandatory
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The Honourable Gordon Killeen, Q.C., is an active member of the Pension Appeal Board and retired justice of the Ontario Superior Court. His conference lectures in recent years have been influential in the evolution of CPP disability law.

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The essential publication for anyone dealing with CPP or OAS issues.

Dealing with CPP or OAS questions and concerns can be difficult because of the procedural, evidentiary and substantive issues that inevitably arise. But, when you have your copy of the Annotated Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security Act, 10th Edition, 2011 handy, dealing with these issues becomes much faster and easier.

The section-by-section annotations provide you with expert commentary, opinions and explanations of the legislative provisions, regulations and court decisions concerning CPP and OAS issues. It also covers pending legislation and new scases, plus the decisions of the Pension Appeals Board and the Review Tribunal.

The Honourable Gordon Killeen, Q.C., of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, is an active member of the Pension Appeal Board. His conference lectures in recent years have been influential in the evolution of CPP disability law.

Andrew James is a legal writer. He is the co-author of Ontario Superior Court Practice (with Mr. Justice Todd Archibald, The Honorable Gordon Killeen, Q.C. and James Morton), and Ontario Family Law Practice (with Justice Craig Perkins and Esther Lenkinski).

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The essential publication for anyone dealing with CPP or OAS issues.

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Published: March 2014

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