Photograph; Farmworkers pick tomatoes in Immokalee, Florida. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez) By Greg Kaufmann | Originally Published at This Week in Poverty: Twelve Things You Can Do To Fight Poverty Now The Nation. on May 10, 2013 9:52 AM ET This is a tough moment in the [...]
Originally Published AllIn at @allinwithchrisMSNBC. All In With Chris Hayes The academic school year ended early for the 435 public school students of Buena Vista School District in Saginaw, Michigan. As the district’s slow-burning budget crisis came to a head, its three schools have been shut down [...]
Photograph; Parents who lost children to gun violence gather at Chicago police headquarters to demand that Chicago police detectives solve their cases. [Photo by Carlos Javier Ortiz / Wonderful Machine] Have you ever witnessed a disaster? Where you troubled, shaken to your core, reminded of the need [...]
Photograph; Art Threat Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert As children most of us are told to trust the police. He is friendly. She walks the beat. He knows your mother. She looks after your father's shop when he cannot be there out on the street. The [...]
By Faiven Feshazion | Originally Published at Melisa Harris Perry Show. January 29, 2013 | Updated January 7, 2013 Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy There are an overwhelming number of reports that hundreds of schools across the country are scheduled [...]
Photograph; Mark Makela for The New York Times | The Philadelphia school system plans to close 37 schools, including University City High School, by June. By Jon Hurdle The New York Times. January 28, 2013 PHILADELPHIA — The United States Department of Education is investigating complaints that [...]
Photograph By Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press | A man sleeps on a sidewalk in the Old Port section of Portland, Maine. The Census Bureau announced in 2010 that the overall number of people living in poverty climbed. By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The [...]
Photograph; Sixty-five-year-old John Washington pick up his great grandson, Rayshaun Cates, at Samuel Morse Elementary School, a Chicago school closed in 2006. With tools from 1964, community activists are pushing the White House to turn federal education policy around. By James Cersonsky | Originally Published [...]
Poor Kids | FRONTLINE | PBS Originally Published at Frontline. Public Broadcast Services. What does it mean to grow up poor in America? In Poor Kids, airing tonight at 10 pm on PBS (check local listings), FRONTLINE follows several of the more than 13 million children in [...]
