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Scholarships Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Scholarship The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO is proud to announce its annual "Unionism in America" Essay Contest. Again this year three categories for the Essay Contest is offered with three awards in each category. Each category has a different topic to explore. The categories and topics are as follows: Category I - Graduating High School Seniors: How would workers benefit by passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)? Category II - Students Attending an Accredited, Post-Secondary Institution: Health Care Crisis in the United States. How does it affect our families, our jobs, our retirees, and our communities? Category III - Affiliated Union Members Attending an Accredited Institution: What does a true Voice@Work mean to you? (Democracy in the Workplace.) The essay contest provides high school students graduating in the year 2010, students currently attending an accredited institution, as well as affiliated union members attending an accredited institution an opportunity to learn more about the Labor Movement's involvement in the social and economic development of our country. The contest is only open to Pennsylvania AFL-CIO affiliated union members and their families and the deadline is January 31, 2010.
 Kid's Chancewww.kidschanceofpa.org Kids' Chance is a nonprofit corporation that provides educational scholarships to children of PA workers who have been seriously injured or killed in PA work related accidents. For the 2003-2004 academic year, Kids' Chance granted 35 scholarships. For details regarding qualification criteria or for any other information regarding this worthy cause, including the Corporate and Community Partner Program, contact Kids' Chance of PA, Inc.: US Mail: Kids' Chance of PA, Inc., PO Box 543, Pottstown, PA 19464  |