Helped by start-up money from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Service Employees International Union has created a nonprofit organization that plans to help young workers who lack health insurance and are saddled with debt. The nonprofit, Qvisory Tools for Life, will provide health insurance and financial advice and will begin doing so this fall, largely through its Web site, qvisory.org. Qvisory plans to give career advice and have blogs and forums in which workers 18 though 35 can discuss jobs and various services. Eileen Quigley, the organization?s chief executive, said, ?What?s new about Qvisory is it?s an attempt to pull together in one place tools and advocacy for the emerging work force.?
See "Union Plans Advisory Tool for Young Workers", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, May 17, 2007