By Len Port, Contributor(*) Hunger in Portugal is widespread, mostly far from obvious, sometimes cloaked in shame. Among those taking concerted action against hunger is an American with a dynamic project he is developing throughout Lisbon and spreading to urban areas in other regions of the country. Hunter Halder, 62, originally from a village near […]
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Portugal: Re-Food program fights hunger at no cost – By Len Port
Posted on 20 April 2014.
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Community: Portuguese Studies Program honors outstanding students – RIC
Posted on 18 April 2014.
The Portuguese Studies Program at Rhode Island College (RIC) has inducted three outstanding students and three honorary members into the Sigma Chapter of the Phi Lambda Beta Portuguese Honor Society. The ceremony also included recognition of the 2014 recipients of the John A. and Mary V. Lima Scholarship in Portuguese Studies. The National Portuguese Honor […]
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Arts & Letters: Talk over lunch with valter hugo mãe – Brown University, RI
Posted on 17 April 2014.
The Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, at Brown University, Providence, RI, is hosting a conversation and lunch event with Portuguese writer and artist, valter hugo mãe, to be held on Wednesday, April 23, at 12pm. Born in Angola in 1971, valter hugo mãe is the penname of Valter Hugo Lemos, a Portuguese language writer […]
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Azores: Rep. Devin Nunes introduces House Bill to keep Lajes Air Field operational – Washington, DC
Posted on 15 April 2014.
A bill was introduced in the House of Representatives, by Portuguese American Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), proposing to relocate AFRICOM’s headquarters from Stuttgart, Germany, to the continental United States, with the provision that Lajes Air Field, on Terceira, Azores, be made into AFRICOM’s forward operating base. The bill also proposes that throughout the transfer process, […]
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OECD: Portuguese workers burdened with the largest income tax increase – Portugal
Posted on 14 April 2014.
Portugal, with a tax on wages of 41.1%, was the country of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) with the largest tax increase in labor income, in 2013, according to a new OECD report released on Friday. Portugal had a 3.5 percentage point income tax increase, higher than the average increase of 0.2 […]
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Portugal: International financial assistance program to end May 17th – European Commission
Posted on 14 April 2014.
The European Commission has confirmed that the international financial assistance to Portugal comes to a close on May 17th, ending the 3-year bailout program, it was reported on Monday. In a prepared statement, the European Commission has said that, “There is no political consideration behind any technical extension to the Portuguese program that ends effectively […]
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