Tammie Hagen-Noey, in her bedroom at a group home in Richmond, Va., earns $7.25 an hour at a local McDonald’s. |Credit; Drew Angerer for The New York Times Changed Life of the Poor: Better Off, but Far Behind By Annie Lowrey | The New York Times. April [...]
Photograph Credit Chris Hondros/Getty By Conor P. Williams | Originally Published at The Daily Beast. March 31, 2014 New York schools are the most segregated in the country according to a new study, but blaming charter schools, which only serve 6% of city students, won’t fix the [...]
Photograph; A report released today by New Detroit showed there are significant racial gaps in education and income across metro Detroit, with Latinos and African Americans lagging behind whites and Asian Americans. / January photo by Kimberly P. Mitchell/Detroit Free While the study reveals the situation is [...]
By Les Leopold | Originally Published at AlterNet. Update at Huffington Post. November 8, 2013 5:59 AM EST Updated: January 23, 2014 6:58 PM EST There are 16.4 million American children living in poverty. That's nearly one quarter (22.6 percent) of all of our children. [...]
In an exclusive interview with First Lady Barbara Bush we discover the problem of unemployment, people cannot secure a job because they cannot read? The preeminent Mrs. Bush confidently expressed as sadly accepted, "If you can’t read, you can’t get a job and you can’t take care [...]
Early one Saturday morning I found my landlady standing in front of our building, staring at the wall, with a bottle of bleach and a pair of rubber gloves. “What are you working on?” I asked, with a forced cheeriness that comes from being a little [...]
Photo: Marin Watts By Von Diaz | Originally Published at Colorlines. Monday, November 11 2013, 7:00 AM EST It’s 10 p.m. on Tuesday night at the Streetwork Project overnight shelter in New York City, and many of the young residents are just settling in. The shelter, a [...]
Under the new incentives available starting a year from now, manufacturing and biotech companies anywhere in the state would be eligible for sales-tax exemptions on the purchase of manufacturing equipment. Companies also could get hiring credits if they are located in census tracts with the highest rates of poverty and unemployment. There also would be tax credits to attract and retain businesses.
It begins at birth, or perhaps at conception. Some babies are conceived to parents of means. Their Moms have access to adequate health care. Prenatal preventative measures to ward off ill-health are provided. During delivery, the parents receive attention, as does the child receives. Day-care, kindergarten, and [...]
