- In 1968, at just 14 years old, Elaine became one of the thousands of victims of North Carolina's forced sterilization program http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/content?oid=oid:413450 10 comments reddit.com
- Heating oil benefits slashed by more than half: Thousands will struggle to keep the heat on this winter unless Congress finalizes its funding for federal home heating assistance program. The poorest families are currently getting $515, compared to last year’s $1,240 http://www.boston.com/business/personalfinance/articles/2010/12/11/as_families_struggle_to_stay_warm_federal_heating_aid_dwindles/ 4 comments politics
- After 8 years of development and delivering it to thousands of users, today I am open sourcing my visual programming language. https://github.com/PWCT/PWCT2 176 comments programming
- Hundreds of thousands of Americans have enrolled in federally financed training programs in recent years, only to remain out of work. That has intensified skepticism about training as a cure for unemployment. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/business/19training.html?_r=1&hp 5 comments economy
- Thousands of IT workers contracting with U.S. companies have for years secretly sent millions of dollars of their wages to North Korea for use in its ballistic missile program, FBI says https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/fbi-thousands-remote-workers-sent-134521175.html 179 comments technology
- Thousands of information technology workers contracting with U.S. companies have for years secretly sent millions of dollars of their wages to North Korea for use in its ballistic missile program, FBI and Department of Justice officials said https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-10-19/fbi-thousands-of-remote-it-workers-sent-wages-to-north-korea-to-help-fund-weapons-program.html 61 comments worldnews
- Hackers infiltrated the European Union’s diplomatic communications network for years, downloading thousands of cables that reveal concerns about an unpredictable Trump administration and struggles to deal with Russia and China and the risk that Iran would revive its nuclear program. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/us/politics/european-diplomats-cables-hacked.html 5 comments worldnews
- Rabies experts on Thursday unveiled a blueprint for eliminating the pernicious disease, which almost always is caused by bites from rabid dogs and kills tens of thousands of people a year worldwide, through a program of mass dog vaccinations in targeted regions. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/25/us-science-rabies-iduskcn0hk28520140925 4 comments worldnews