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’Crucial first eight years’: Study finds most poor children lag on cognitive...
Image: NBC News Only 19 percent of low-income third graders have “age-appropriate cognitive skills,” according to a policy report released Monday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. That number is a...
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Ohio Walmart Criticized For Holding Food Drive For Own Employees
A Canton, Ohio Walmart store is under fire for organizing a food drive meant to benefit its own employees, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported on Monday. Image: Cleveland Plain Dealer via OUR Walmart...
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‘Business is warfare’– Who will control Black dollars?
There is a war going on for Black survival and critical to the war is a contest over who will control Black dollars. That important warning was delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan in...
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Wal-Mart Workers Will Make History on Friday As America Confronts Growing...
This Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, tens of millions of Americans will travel to Wal-Mart stores to look for holiday discounts on computers, toys and cell phones as well as to buy...
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How Fast Food Giants Use Loopholes to Avoid taxes, Pay Execs Giant Pay, and...
The fast food industry is notorious for handing out lean paychecks to their burger flippers and fat ones to their CEOs. What’s less well-known is that taxpayers are actually subsidizing fast food...
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Pope Francis Responds to Rush Limbaugh’s “Marxist” Charges
Image: Daily Kos In an interview with Italian newspaper La Stampa, Pope Francis responded on Saturday to Rush Limbaugh’s recent accusation that he is a “pure Marxist.” Asked how it felt to be called a...
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Mississippi Governor Pushing Welfare Drug Testing
Image: Getty You will be tested for the measly $140.00 from the Great? State of Mississippi! Republican Phil Bryant is starting his third year as Mississippi governor, and he says he wants to make...
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Billionaire Home Depot Founder Says Pope Francis Is Alienating The Rich
Billionaire Home Depot founder Ken Langone has a warning for Pope Francis. A major Republican donor, Langone told CNBC in a story published online Monday that wealthy people such as himself might stop...
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The War on Poverty Turns 50: Why Aren’t We Winning?
Image: Wikipedia The “war on poverty” turns 50 this week. Judging by the official rate, which has only edged down from 19 percent to 15 percent in that time, poverty is winning the war. Why? In Annie...
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Principal stopped school’s shaming free lunch kids with hand stamps, says it...
Principal stopped school’s shaming free lunch kids with hand stamps, says it got her fired (via Raw Story ) A former principal at a charter elementary school in Colorado said that she was fired last...
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Louie Gohmert: I became a congressman to stop single moms from getting...
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) revealed on Thursday that he had become a congressman because he was outraged that single women were having as many as 15 babies and getting welfare checks. “If it weren’t for...
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Martin O’Malley shreds Rubio: You can’t ‘multiply the bread and fishes’ by...
Martin O’Malley shreds Rubio: You can’t ‘multiply the bread and fishes’ by starving kids (via Raw Story ) Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) on Sunday lashed out at Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for thinking...
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Black America braces for what’s ahead in 2014
Black America faces a bleak outlook in 2014 if trends over the last several years and particularly 2013 are any indication. This daunting projection spans economics, politics, health, education, and...
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Requiring an ID to Eat?! The Right-Wing’s Next Crazy Plot Against Low-Income...
Image: bradblog.com Food stamp recipients will have their grocery store humiliation compounded by having to show a photo ID in order to buy food if Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) gets his way. Under a bill...
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O’Reilly: Why don’t you talk about black families? Obama: I do, but you’re...
O’Reilly: Why don’t you talk about black families? Obama: I do, but you’re not listening (via Raw Story ) President Barack Obama repeated his assertion to Fox News host Bill O’Reilly that the...
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After first-term caution, Obama dives deeper on race
Image: Getty During his first term, President Obama waded gingerly into the issue of race, mindful of the historic nature of his presidency while at the same time downplaying its significance. With a...
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Ladies and Gentlemen… Cultural and Poverty Expert Paul Ryan*!*^%
Paul Ryan cites ‘white nationalist’ to blame poverty on lazy men in ‘inner cities’ (via Raw Story ) Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Wednesday suggested that men in “inner cities” who refused to work were one...
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Connecticut becomes first state to pass $10.10 minimum wage
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4 Messed-Up Sexist Things That Happen to Women of Color
Feminism is much more than simply addressing the wage gap, climbing the corporate ladder, or even ensuring access to abortion services. Many times racism, classism and sexism are so tightly enmeshed...
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