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Texas Medicaid Debate Complicated By Politics And Poverty
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21.5.2013 |
NPR News |
| In Texas, it may be politically unwise to cross the governor, but some politicians and advocates in the poor Rio Grande Valley are starting to speak out in support of expanding Medicaid. Governor Perry opposes all parts of Obamacare. |
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Op-Ed Contributors: Cul-de-Sac Poverty
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21.5.2013 |
NY Times: Editorials |
| Op-Ed Contributors: Cul-de-Sac Poverty |
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Letters: It Takes a Community (1 Letter)
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21.5.2013 |
New York Times Health |
| Letters: It Takes a Community (1 Letter) |
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More poor live in suburbs than urban areas, research shows
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20.5.2013 |
Chicago Tribune: Popular |
| More poor live in suburbs than urban areas, research shows |
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Advocates Struggle To Reach Growing Ranks Of Suburban Poor
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20.5.2013 |
NPR: Morning Edition |
| The number of poor people living in America's suburbs now surpasses those in cities or rural areas. Long focused on the urban poor, social service agencies are now trying to respond to the basic needs of a much more far-flung population. |
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Poverty hits home in local suburbs like S. King County
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20.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Top stories |
| For the first time, there are more poor people living in American suburbs than in the nation’s big cities, according to new findings by the Brookings Institution. South King County is particularly “eye-opening,” the researchers say. |
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Poverty hits home in local suburbs like S. King County
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20.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Local |
| For the first time, there are more poor people living in American suburbs than in the nation’s big cities, according to new findings by the Brookings Institution. South King County is particularly “eye-opening,” the researchers say. |
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Guest: Building a community to close the education achievement gap
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18.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Opinion |
| Despite the hard work of thousands of well-meaning adults, children in poverty-impacted schools are still most likely to get lost within the system, according to guest columnists Tom Stritikus and Elham Kazemi. |
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May 19 Readers' letters: Diablo's bicycle issue and a call to implement Laura's Law
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18.5.2013 |
San Jose Mercury News: Letters |
| Letters from Mercury News readers. |
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The IRS targeted tea party groups. Did liberal groups get better treatment?
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17.5.2013 |
Yahoo: Politics |
| Today marks the one-week anniversary of the Internal Revenue Service's disclosure that it improperly scrutinized certain conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. As an inspector general report on the practice found, groups with phrases like "tea party," "patriots" and "9/12 project" were targeted for the "Be On the Look Out" or "BOLO" list, and often [...] |
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Fighting Poverty Through Wall Street Accountability
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17.5.2013 |
Commondreams.org Views |
This year, I’ve been focused on how anti-poverty activists can move from a defensive battle defined by trying to save what needs to be saved during these budget debates, to an offensive one, laying out a vision that inspires ongoing, unified action and builds a vibrant movement that connects with people in their communities. (Photo: Lenina Nadal/flickr) read more |
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Do you remember rock 'n' roll radio?
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17.5.2013 |
CNN: Top Stories |
| In this capital city and college town, there is a shrine to a disc jockey. |
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All 278 under-the-radar leaders and community connector nominees
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16.5.2013 |
MinnPost |
| The 3 rd call for nominations of “Under the Radar Leaders” and “Community Connectors” has brought in a record number of submissions—278 to be exact!
This awareness initiative brings attention to the amazing visionaries and champions leading our communities day in and day out.
We asked for your nominations in two categories:
1) Under the Radar Leaders — people making an impact "under the radar" and whose work/efforts/impact should be shared more broadly with our community, starting with the Pollen network.
2) Community Connectors — people in our community who are getting things done by bringing together ideas, resources, and multiple stakeholders to make things happen.
Pollen members submitted 135 Under the Radar Leaders and 143 Community Connectors. Thank you to all nominators and congratulations to all submitted!
Here is the full roster of all submissions (apologies in advance for any misspellings, please send any corrections to hello@bepollen.com ):
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Rochester ready for zombie apocalypse (or anything lesser); Winona County fighting ash borer
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15.5.2013 |
MinnPost |
| You know, the child poverty story out of Owatonna was probably more important, but you have to admit, this headline made you read this story. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention figures that if a community can handle a zombie apocalypse, it can handle most other catastrophes. Edie Grossfield of the Rochester Post Bulletin writes that last Saturday, a team of medical and other community organizations gathered at a Boy Scout camp southeast of Rochester and helped people “pretending to be afflicted with the make-believe, zombie-causing disease HADAD, or Hemorrhagic Acral Dermatitis with Anesthetic Delirium . … Students from Mayo Medical School and Riverland Community College's nursing program had to practice the skills they've learned to triage and treat the patients. Also involved were Mayo medical professionals, members of local Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops, various Mayo Clinic health-care students and community volunteers, including students from the University of Minnesota Rochester. ... |
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How A Florida Medical School Cares For Communities In Need
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15.5.2013 |
NPR News |
| Florida International University's medical school has made community-based health care a central part of its curriculum. With home visits and a mobile health clinic, students connect with families in neighborhoods where medical care is scarce. |
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A blueprint to end poverty
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13.5.2013 |
MinnPost |
| St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman is convening a task force to examine and recommend solutions to homelessness in St. Paul. He has tapped two leaders, Carleen Rhodes of the Minnesota Community Foundation and Matt Kramer, president of the Chamber to get things done.
They understand that homelessness is not what it was 20 years ago or even 10 years ago. We need new strategies, although some of the old ones may still have value. The community stands ready to help them in producing a good plan, one that Krammer says “will not sit on a shelf.” Good decision, Mayor.
This semester a class of graduate students at Hamline University worked on a blueprint to end poverty. Their framework might be useful to the task force.
Highlights of the plan are:
Build wealth. Develop a community where all families and individuals have equal opportunities and resources needed to earn a living wage and build assets. Increasing the minimum wage and expanding opportunities to build wealth would help reduce poverty.
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Colorado Springs neighborhood tops the state in gun deaths
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12.5.2013 |
Durango Herald |
| Tragedies such as those at Columbine and Aurora drive the public debate about guns, but the truth in Colorado is that the state experienced an unremitting loss of life involving firearms x2013 6,258 deaths x2013 during the 12 years between those mass shootings.Thatx2019s 10 gun deaths a week x2013 every week x2013 during... |
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Twelve Things You Can Do To Fight Poverty Now
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10.5.2013 |
Commondreams.org Views |
 Farmworkers pick tomatoes in Immokalee, Florida. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)This is a tough moment in the fight against poverty.
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B.C.'s political climate is shifting: Why talk of 'jobs vs. environment' no longer holds water
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10.5.2013 |
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us |
| Friday, May 10, 2013
Framing things as a "jobs versus environment" issue does not hold much water anymore; the biggest threat to livelihoods in B.C. now is the carbon pollution from burning fossil fuels.
Something subtle but important has shifted in the climate of B.C politics.
Early in the April 29 televised leaders' debate, B.C. NDP leader Adrian Dix addressed climate change, not as an environmental issue for the consideration of future generations, but as a present-day economic and social issue.
Dix talked about how people in interior communities are already losing jobs because of trees killed by the pine beetle, which is directly linked to rising temperatures. The fact that the fossil fuel industry is already devastating the interior forestry sector is starting to sink in.
In Vancouver, where I live, it is possible to think of rising carbon levels in the atmosphere as a future environmental issue, but in rural B.C., it is a different story.
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Emanuel's push to curb crime gets split verdict in Chicago poll
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10.5.2013 |
Chicago Tribune: Popular |
| Emanuel's push to curb crime gets split verdict in Chicago poll |
