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Tip Night for Parkinson's Awareness

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Help bring awareness to Parkinson’s disease, a progressive neurological disease that affects over 1 million Americans.  There is no cure, therapy, or drug to slow or halt the progression of Parkinson’s disease and we need increased education and research to help find more effective treatments with fewer side effects and, ultimately, an effective treatment or cure for Parkinson’s disease.

Exercise is now being scientifically studied and the Iowa Chapter of APDA is sponsoring fitness trainers across the State of Iowa to be trained in PD specific exercise programs.  Come help the IA Chapter support research in their mission to Ease the Burden and Find a Cure.

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Julia Ziesman June 12, 2013 at 10:28 pm
Could one of the reasons for the population loss in rural Iowa be the lack of decent paying jobs?Read More There are large portions of rural Iowa where there are minimum wage jobs without benefits. Wal-Mart has replaced many small businesses in rural counties. Many of their workers need welfare to survive. The welfare programs that Wal-Mart workers rely on include Medicaid, subsidized housing and food assistance. Meanwhile Wal-Mart and other corporations are setting records for corporate profits. A May 2013 report “The Low-Wage Drag on Our Economy: Wal-Mart’s Low Wages and Their Effect on Taxpayers and Economic Growth” shows how their business model exerts downward pressure on wages. Should we continue to support a created taxpayer-funded social welfare program by corporations? Raising the minimum wage could help alleviate those programs.
Maria Houser Conzemius June 13, 2013 at 11:14 am
Julia Ziesman, I boycott Walmart for the reasons you listed. American taxpayers subsidize Walmart'sRead More low wages and poor benefits with $2.1 billion a year. Collectively, Sam Walton's heirs contributed a whole $6,000 to charity. I looked up the three class-action lawsuits against Walmart that I knew about and found 71. Many lawsuits against Walmart are to try to make courts enforce their many rulings against Walmart. I was really upset when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to allow Walmart women workers' lawsuit against Walmart to proceed as a class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit that shocked me the most was that of a 33-year-old handicapped woman in a wheelchair who wouldn't believe that Walmart had shaved her time card hours in order to pay her less than the pitiful hourly wage she should have earned. Her lawyers had to produce documents to prove to her that Walmart was really that unethical.