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Obama Decries Rising Cost of College Education
Jim Kuhnenn | Associated Press

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — President Barack Obama called Friday for an overhaul of the higher education financial aid system, warning that colleges and universities that fail to control spiraling tuition…

Food stamp families to critics: Walk in our shoes
Jesse Washington | AP National Writer

Some have advanced degrees and remember middle-class lives. Some work selling lingerie or building websites. They are white, black and Hispanic, young and old, homeowners and homeless. What they have…

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Real Cost of Teacher Layoffs is Our Future
Claudia Rowe | Equal Voice News

By now, the pattern is impossible to ignore: More than 30,000 teachers in California received layoff warnings last spring; another 300 prepared for unemployment in Milwaukee; in Chicago, 1,000 more were looking for work, and by the time school started in September some 60,000 teachers across the country had…

State Child Care Cuts Force Hard Choice on Parents
Amy Taxin | Associated Press

OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Sarah Comito rolls out of bed before dawn most days and slips quietly out of her house. Before her rambunctious toddler wakes up, she heads off to work as a waitress in an upscale weight-loss resort in Malibu. The hour-long commute is exhausting, but the 33-year-old…

Alabama’s Scott Douglas Inspires on Colbert Report
Kathy Mulady | Equal Voice News

Quoting Martin Luther King and deftly comparing the injustice of anti-immigrant legislation to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Scott Douglas, executive director of Greater Birmingham Ministries, rocked the Colbert Report during his…

TOP Celebrates Victory in Houston

Texas Organizing Project members are celebrating a victory for Houston neighborhoods after securing an agreement with Mayor Annise Parker that will dedicate $60 million of Hurricane Ike Recovery Funds to repair single-family homes. The victory was sealed Dec. 6, after a unanimous vote from the Houston City Council. The historic vote comes on the heels…

Texas Teen Deported to Colombia Headed Back to US
Juan  Llorca | Associated Press

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A 15-year-old Texas girl who was deported in May to South America after claiming to be an illegal immigrant was headed back to the United States on Friday, the U.S. State Department said. Jakadrien Lorece Turner left Colombia on Friday and was on her way…