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The healthcare debate has died down a bit in Washington (for the moment, anyway), but the realities of U.S. healthcare are still stark: the number of uninsured Americans remains at an all-time high, and over 50 million people nationwide lack access to medical care.
A crucial resource for uninsured and underserved [...]

Update: April 6, 2011: GE continues to monitor and respond to events in Japan following the unprecedented natural disasters and the events at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant. Working with our partner, Hitachi, we’ve engaged more than 1,000 current and retired nuclear engineers to provide technical assistance to Tokyo Electric [...]

GE’s sponsorship of the Ronald Reagan Centennial Celebration kicked-off yesterday, with a number of tributes to the 40th President — from friends and former colleagues to some of the 250,000 GE employees he visited during his eight years as a GE goodwill ambassador. Among those highlighting the rapport forged with [...]

Long before he ran for office, Ronald Reagan served as the host of the weekly TV series, General Electric Theater — and as a GE goodwill ambassador from 1954 to 1962. He also traveled to 139 GE plants — inspiring employees with his optimism, entrepreneurial spirit and a belief in [...]

With nearly 16 percent of the U.S. population living without health insurance — or 45 million people — the lack of access to quality care is a problem that continues to grow. It’s one of the reasons why GE, as part of its healthymagination initiative, committed to a 3-year, $25 [...]

A new U.S.-China initiative announced today aims to transform Guangdong Province, located on China’s southern coast, into a model for green, sustainable development that can set the bar for major Chinese cities. The province, also known by its English name, Canton, is home to 80 million people and boasts an [...]

Contributor Vivek Kemp is GE’s Reporter at Large
This month, the GE Foundation and New York City’s Department of Education announced a program that will pump $13 million into the city’s middle schools. One-year grants of up to $250,000 will go to 55 schools — with GE’s [...]