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Hunger Stalks California's Rural Minority Areas
July 18, 2011
Across California and beyond, rural unemployment is higher and incomes lower, than in nearby urban areas. Imperial County's unemployment rate in March was 30 percent, probably the state's highest. The county's economy is almost entirely dependent on agriculture and farm labor. Orange Cove and San Joaquin ...
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Researchers To Study Rural Black HIV+ Males
March 03, 2011
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Broadband Access To Help Tribal, Rural Businesses
August 04, 2010
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Black, Rural Women To Be Target Of New Breast Cancer Research Program
May 11, 2010
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Despite Much-Higher Poverty Rates, Rural Oregonians Use Less Public Assistance
April 01, 2010
OSU researchers Deana Grobe and Bobbie Weber, along with Elizabeth Davis of the University of Minnesota, found that the rates of use of such programs as work support were similar between rural and urban areas, despite poverty and unemployment figures often being much higher in rural areas. For ...
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Joint Report: Broadband Plan Isn't Bold Enough For Rural And Urban Areas
March 26, 2010
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Rural Haiti Struggles To Absorb Displaced
March 18, 2010
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National Rural Youth Assembly Project Looking For Young Leaders Of Tomorrow
February 17, 2010
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Grant Will Aid Minority, Rural Communities
November 10, 2009
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Southern Rural Black Women’s Hall of Fame to recognize impact of 5 women
October 26, 2009
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Access Issues Persist For Indians, Rural Americans, Immigrants
June 15, 2009
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Pomeroy Bill Will Increase Funding for Rural School Districts
May 15, 2009
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THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND LAUNCHES TRAINING INSTITUTES TO SUPPLY 10,000 TEACHERS TO URBAN AND RURAL SECONDARY SCHOOLS
March 19, 2009
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Food Insecurity Higher In Minority Households
September 08, 2011
The USDA today released a new report of Food Security in the U.S.. The report showed that food insecurity rates were substantially higher than the national average for households with incomes near or below the current federal poverty line ($22,350 for a family of four), households with children headed by single women ...
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Louisiana Prisons Put Black Voting Power At Risk
September 02, 2011
Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary, is one of the most notorious prisons in the United States. Sometimes called “The Farm†because of its plantation-like set-up, it houses almost 5,300 men, of whom 3,900 are serving life sentences, 968 face terms of 40 years or more, and 83 are on death row. The prison is located 90 minutes ...
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US Closer To Minority Majority
August 31, 2011
New analysis released today by the Brookings Institution Metropolita Policy Program reveals rapid growth of Hispanic and Asian populations and new internal shifts of Blacks are transforming the demographics of America‟s largest metropolitan areas ahead of other parts of the country. The report, The New Metropolitan Minority Map, is based on decennial census data from 1990, 2000, and 2010 for the 100 ...
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Study: Blacks At Higher Risk For Death From Stroke
September 01, 2011
Blacks and country folk outside the so-called “stroke belt†are at higher risk for stroke death than other populations, a large new study finds. A stroke occurs every 40 seconds somewhere in the United States, but little has been known about whether stroke mortality disparities exist outside an 11-state region in southeast United States known as the stroke belt. ...
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GOOD NEW$ FOR MINORITY DWELLERS
August 05, 2011
The National Association of Real Estate Brokers, Inc. (NAREB) will announce a historic engagement between the National Association of Real Estate Brokers and Wall Street investors, to launch an $800 Million HomeownerÂfs Assurance Program (HAP) to address the devastating effects of the mortgage crisis on minority families and their communities. The announcement will be made Sunday, following the first NAREB State of Housing ...
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Defamation Case For Ousted USDA Official Begins
July 20, 2011
A year ago U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack ordered Shirley Sherrod to resign from her job as a Georgia rural development official following the distribution of a video that showed her supposedly making racist remarks. When Sherrod’s speech to an NAACP group was heard in its entirety, it became clear she was not showing ...
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WHITE HOUSE SPOTLIGHTS LATINOS
July 11, 2011
The White House began a 2-day Hispanic Policy Conference today. The confrence will bring community leaders from across the country together with a broad range of White House and Cabinet officials for an in-depth series of interactive workshops and substantive conversations on the Administration’s efforts as they relate to the Hispanic community. ...
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Mystery Still Surrounds '64 KKK Killings
June 27, 2011
A cloud of mystery still surrounds the events of the Deep South’s most notorious nights: the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights workers who were chased down a rural lane by a gang of Klansmen, beaten, shot and buried in a dam. The case riveted America, prompting Lyndon Johnson, the President ...
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No Child Left Behind Law And Minority Kids
June 23, 2011
Nearly a decade after the No Child Left Behind law was enacted, studies have shown little progress in reducing the number of teachers of low-income students who are inexperienced or teaching classes outside their subject areas. The law, which was supposed to stop school districts from putting less qualified teachers in classrooms with low-income students, is best known to the public for requiring more standardized testing. According to studies, considerable progress has been made in reducing the number of uncertified teachers ...
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Is A Post-Racial America Possible?
June 21, 2011
As the field of candidates for President grows, some in the Black community are being forced to accept the hard reality that race relations in America have not improved. Still others never thought a post-racial America ever had a chance to begin with. ...
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Historic Negro Baseball Stadium On Road To Restoration
June 21, 2011
On The heels of the unveiling of the 2011 America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places (NTHP) by the non-profit National Trust for Historic Preservation, comes an update on one of last year's sites. Hinchcliffe Stadium, home of the Negro Baseball League's New York Black Yankees, fell into disrepair since it's closing in 1997. ...
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Minority Homeless Rate Drops
June 20, 2011
HUD’s annual report reveals how the Recovery Act’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP) helped to mitigate homelessness in America. ...
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Hispanic Organizations Get Behind AT&T-T-Mobile Merger
June 07, 2011
The commitments that AT&T is making as part of this proposed merger will resonate strongly in Latino communities. ...
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Blacks Support Mobile Phone Merger
June 02, 2011
Collectively, the signatory groups represent the approximately 40 million African Americans in the United States. ...
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Agriculture Secretary: A USDA For All Americans
May 23, 2011
Our work has produced real results. Last year, we had the lowest number of program complaints filed against the Farm Service Agency since USDA began keeping track. ...
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Redistricting 2011: Power Shift In Chicago?
May 17, 2011
Community activists charge that by undercounting thousands of African-American residents, the Census Bureau, itself, is partly to blame. ...
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Black Youth Have Less Trouble If Mentored
May 17, 2011
The study involved 345 Blacks starting when they were age 17 or 18 and measured how they progressed during an 18-month period. ...
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