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  THROWBACK: America's Newest Nightmare

  globalgrind.com - WARNING: THESE VIDEOS MIGHT MAKE YOU GET UP AND DO SOMETHING The crisis of poverty in the Black community has sparked the Poor People’s Campaign, the Gathering of Hearts Organization and the Nation view details...

  Posted by: Brother Jesse 6/15/2009
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  Detroit Too Broke To Bury Its Dead

  airamerica.com - With unemployment approaching a dizzying 28%, many families do not have the resources to absorb the costs of a funeral. So, the bodies are piling up--and there's no end in sight. To date, 67 bodies view details...

  Posted by: Wavey Willie 10/2/2009
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  Hip-Hop Republican Blogs: Obama Doesn't Care About HBCU's

  globalgrind.com - Will our Historically Black Colleges and Universities begin to ROAR (Reclaim Our Academia’s Republican Roots) now with President Obama’s desire to cut funding?Americans supporting President Obama have view details...

  Posted by: Lenny McAllister 5/13/2009
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  The Katrina Legacy

  thedailyvoice.com - Three years after Hurricane Katrina, neither of the nation's presidential candidates is addressing poverty issues. view details...

  Posted by: neverscared 8/21/2008
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• 1/3 of All Public High School Students Drop Out of School

  spotlightonpoverty.org - Approximately one-third of all children, and 50 percent of minorities, in public high school drop out of high school nationwide. In many of the nation ’s “dropout factories,” the percentage of dropouts view details...

  Posted by: Sportaphile 5/28/2008
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• The Truth about Marketa Bartelle: Poverty Bail Out

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  Posted by: MarketaBartelle 9/8/2009
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  Poverty and the One-Third World

  Racialicious - by Guest Contributor Tagland, originally published at Tanglad I am an immigrant woman of the Two-Thirds World, who is living with the One-Third World. I first came across Esteva and Prakash’s concept view details...

  Posted by: Mr. Tyson 12/22/2008
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  Tent City, USA

  New York Times - Cities across America deal with shantytowns... view details...

  Posted by: The Connector 3/26/2009
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  L.A. OKs moratorium on fast-food restaurants -

  www.msnbc.msn.com - In a bid to fight obesity, the Los Angeles City Council has approved a one-year moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in a low-income area of the city. view details...

  Posted by: Testbet 7/29/2008
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  Watch Out For The New Swine Flu

  alertnet.org - Seven people have been diagnosed with a new kind of swine flu in California and Texas, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday. view details...

  Posted by: Illmatic 4/23/2009
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