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Border Patrol Told to Stop Interpreting for Law Enforcement
Across the U.S. - Canada border, drivers complain that they are pulled over and questioned based over the way they look and without reasonable cause. 
On Election Day – with a high voter turnout – Idahoans rejected three education reform laws passed by legislators in 2011, telling their representatives to go back to the proverbial drawing board. In what is often called “the reddest” of the red states – a state whose citizens previously approved a right-to-work law that restricts [...]
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SEATTLE ‒ The temperature is falling, and in Seattle, the leaves and rain are falling as well. Festive music fills storefronts, and there’s a buzz as the holidays approach and thoughts turn to home. But, for 22-year-old David – and more than 3 million other Americans who experience homelessness in a given year, including 1.3 [...]
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CALDWELL, Idaho – Idaho, the Gem State, is one of the few places on earth where you can find the star garnet. In its raw form, Idaho’s state stone is rough and unassuming, its inner beauty unrecognizable. The same may be said of Idaho’s people. Which is why I believe Idaho is the perfect place [...]
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FORKS, Wash. – Oscar and Olivia, 10-year-old red-headed twins – his hair cut short, hers long down her back – browse through the shelves at the Forks branch library. They pause to pull out a book that catches their interest and add it to their pile. It’s dusk. The librarians are pushing chairs back under [...]
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Cristian Torres and Amy Lee are among the hundreds of thousands of young people, brought into the United States as children, who cheered the announcement by President Barack Obama on Friday that they will get work permits and be safe from deportation. Torres said his mother woke him up as soon as she heard the [...]
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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 is thankful to make the [...]
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Donna Gordon Blankenship | Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — As the first signs of an economic recovery make the news, many of the nation’s nonprofit organizations are digging in for another three to four years of financial distress, according to researchers who keep an eye on the charitable world. Some larger nonprofits are seeing donations [...]
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SEATTLE – If the nation’s 14 million unemployed workers return to jobs, they will find some sobering changes in the workplace: They’ll earn less, pay more for health insurance and receive fewer benefits, some as basic as paid sick leave. Decades of progress in the fight for better employee benefits have been wiped out, putting [...]
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Inside the American Dream: A Poster Child For Promise Rejects it as Myth
January 12, 2011
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From the moment we realize that life goes hand-in-hand with a lifestyle, vague notions of the American Dream hover in the background. Embraced or rejected, they are almost impossible to escape. Yet the definition of that dream varies. Newspaper columnists opine about the holy grail of middle-class values. Pop culture praises an ever-mounting inventory of [...]
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