Imperial Valley News Center
OECD Releases Preliminary 2014 U.S. Assistance Results
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Washington, DC - Today the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) released preliminary 2014 net Official Development Assistance (ODA) estimates. The data again shows that the United States led all other donors according to preliminary 2014 estimates, with $32.73 billion in net assistance, another record level.
Counter-ISIL Coalition Small Group Meeting in Jordan
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Washington, DC - Today, Special Presidential Envoy General John Allen and Deputy Special Presidential Envoy Brett McGurk participated in a meeting of the Small Group of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL in Jordan. The Small Group met at the Political Director level to review Coalition operations and progress along the various lines of effort to degrade and defeat ISIL.
One in six Americans still experience food insecurity
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Sacramento, California - New data released by the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) show that millions of Americans still struggle to afford enough food for their households. How Hungry is America?, FRAC’s latest look at food hardship, finds that one in six Americans (17.2 percent) said in 2014 that there had been times over the past 12 months that they didn’t have enough money to buy food that they or their families needed.
Social Security Matters
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Washington, DC - Social Security Matters by AMAC’s Certified Social Security Advisor C.J. Miles via the Association of Mature American Citizens:
Governor Brown to Meet with Water, Environmental and Agricultural Leaders on Drought
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Sacramento, California - On the heels of the lowest snowpack measurement ever recorded last week and the first ever statewide mandatory water reduction order, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. will meet with top agricultural, environmental and urban water agency leaders from across California today in Sacramento.
CDFW Accepting Applications for Deer and Pig Hunt Permits in Merced County
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Los Banos, California - The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is now accepting applications for a limited number of deer and pig hunt access permits on opening weekend, August 8-9, in Zone A for the general season. The locations for this hunt include Upper and Lower Cottonwood Creek and the San Luis Reservoir wildlife areas in western Merced County.
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