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Young people, not without hope, are now most impoverished demographic

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Young people, not without hope, are now most impoverished demographic  - Last week, a survey of the top teacher from each state, conducted by Scholastic Inc., found that family stress and poverty are the biggest factors hurting ...

Financial inclusion in Latin America: giving the people what they need

Financial inclusion in Latin America : giving the people what they need  - Everyone agrees that financial inclusion offers a way out of poverty for those at ... Latin America is the continent with the most inequality in the world, ...

Salvadoran President Prioritizes Education, Poverty Reduction

Salvadoran President Prioritizes Education, Poverty Reduction  - He assumed the highest office in the small Central American nation on June 1, 2014. The former school teacher had previously served as the ...

Mass immigration into America constitutes illogical thinking leading to disastrous results

Mass immigration into America constitutes illogical thinking leading to disastrous results  -  Over 47 million Americans subsist on food stamps. Over 13 million American children live below the poverty line. Poverty has become entrenched in ...

The Founders' Model of Welfare Actually Reduced Poverty

The Founders' Model of Welfare Actually Reduced Poverty  - As I argue in a new essay on “ Poverty and Welfare in the American Founding,” these results are bound to continue unless we rethink welfare policy ...

Racism and Inequality in America

Racism and Inequality in America  -  Inequality is poisoning the American dream. As economic inequality grows, expanding geographic areas of this country lose hope. Hopelessness ...

Nepal's LGBT victims need help

Nepal's LGBT victims need help  - They are in the process of setting up camps specifically for the LGBT community, to allow them to rest and recover from the earthquake in relative ...

President Obama Will Host An LGBT Pride Event In June

President Obama Will Host An LGBT Pride Event In June  - As Obama's time in the Oval Office draws closer to an end, I can only hope that the next president, whoever it might be, will also be an ally to the LGBT  ...

Illinois Senate Sends Bill to Governor to Protect LGBT Youths from Conversion Therapy

Illinois Senate Sends Bill to Governor to Protect LGBT Youths from Conversion Therapy  - The Illinois State Senate voted 34-19 to pass House Bill 217, the Illinois Youth Mental Health Protection Act that will protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and ..

Catholic couple puts faith in action for LGBT Youth

Catholic couple puts faith in action for LGBT Youth  -  The couple officially fell into their role as LGBT advocates, joining the ... only a safe house, but they also are surrogate parents for 17 LGBT youths.

Gay man forced to have sex with his MOTHER to 'cure' homosexuality

Gay man forced to have sex with his MOTHER to 'cure' homosexuality  - The parents will arrange the rape and handpick a relative - usually a cousin - to carry out the heinous act, claim the crisis intervention team of LGBT  ...

Sneak peek of season finale of Logo TV's 'Cucumber'

Sneak peek of season finale of Logo TV's 'Cucumber'  - In the season finale Henry invites a collection of local LGBT friends and family to move in to his new home, including a group of sexy young guys who ...

Why Are You Proud To Be LGBTQ Or An Ally? 32 New Yorkers Answer Our Question

Why Are You Proud To Be LGBTQ Or An Ally? 32 New Yorkers Answer Our Question  - Warmer weather isn't the only reason June brings reason to celebrate — it's also LGBT Pride Month! LGBT Pride Month (officially) started in 1995, ...

How does black hair reflect black history?

How does black hair reflect black history?  - As an exhibition in Liverpool investigates the significance of hair in black .... "So if you go to the States, you see lots of African - American women with ...

Old African-American celebration given second life in New York

Old African - American celebration given second life in New York  - Considered the oldest African - American holiday, Pinkster was virtually unknown to generations of New Yorkers until three years ago when a group of ...

Financial inclusion in Latin America: giving the people what they need

Financial inclusion in Latin America: giving the people what they need  - Everyone agrees that financial inclusion offers a way out of poverty for those at ... Latin America is the continent with the most inequality in the world, ...

Republicans should not dismiss Latino concerns

Republicans should not dismiss Latino concerns  - I honestly think that that is a different kind of crime that there should be a price paid, but it shouldn't rile people up that people are actually coming to ...

Empowering Latinos, one class at a time

Empowering Latinos , one class at a time  - Rodriguez founded the program in an attempt to help Latinos , who ... More than 45 people have gone through the program to date, committing eight ...

New mural on South Side encourages community, Latino pride

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New mural on South Side encourages community, Latino pride  - New mural on South Side encourages community, Latino pride ... Arguta said his biggest challenge is finding people who are willing to invest in his art ...

Products for growing marijuana hit the market in Uruguay

Products for growing marijuana hit the market in Uruguay  - "I don't know if buyers are growing marijuana or are just growers in general, because people using the soil know the components are very good, with ...

2 Bodies found in clandestine grave in southern Mexico

2 Bodies found in clandestine grave in southern Mexico  - Two bodies were found in a clandestine grave in Chilapa, a city in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, but they are not those of any of the people  ...

African Americans disproportionately killed by police: Report

African Americans disproportionately killed by police: Report  - According to the data, 29% of those killed by police, or 135 people , were African. Sixty-seven, or 14%, were Hispanic / Latino , and 234, or 50%, were ...

Tobacco use kills 36 people each day in Cuba

Tobacco use kills 36 people each day in Cuba  - Tobacco addiction is the non-genetic illness that most negatively affects Cubans' quality of life and each day an average of 36 people die on the ...

White progressives' racial myopia: Why their colorblindness fails minorities — and the left

White progressives' racial myopia: Why their colorblindness fails minorities — and the left  - Yes, African American incomes rose and unemployment declined in those years. But black people were locked out of many of the wealth-generating ...

Bending the Cost Curve in Higher Education?

Bending the Cost Curve in Higher Education ?  - But despite this clear consensus, extended education is still scarce in emerging economies like those of Latin America . And in more developed ...