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AT&T will invest $2 million in three initiatives working to boost high school student retention and raise the national graduation rate to 90 percent by 2020....

In partnership with Share our Strength and Youth Service America, the foundation will support initiatives to alleviate hunger among the seventeen million children in the United States without dependable access to nutritious food....

The grant will support the identification of campus support strategies that have a positive impact on first-generation students' success and the replication of those initiatives at MSI institutions in the alliance....

New initiatives are being rolled out to help struggling homeowners. Lenders will be required to temporarily lower or eliminate monthly payments for people who've lost jobs, and they'll get incentives to reduce the principal on underwater homes.

Mitchell Hartman reports.

President Obama has been talking -- a lot -- about what Washington needs to do to help save small businesses. Over the past week, he's introduced a half-dozen different initiatives aimed at unlocking credit, creating jobs and expanding the Small Business Administration's loan programs.

The foundation has launched the Living Proof Project, a multiyear campaign designed to show how U.S.-supported initiatives to fight malaria, AIDS, and other diseases are saving and improving the lives of millions of people in developing countries....

Two grants totaling up to $2.2 million will support initiatives designed to strengthen northeast Ohio's economic competitiveness by growing the region's advanced energy industry and strengthening its talent development system....

The grant will provide support for members of the AmeriCorps branch of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation who are working to revitalize disadvantaged communities....

The Obama administration, issuing its first progress report on the $787 billion stimulus program, said Wednesday that $88 billion has been made available and that it's ahead of schedule in implementing most initiatives.