THURSDAY | FEBRUARY 23, 2012
Florida Only State In US With An Official Chef
Tamara Lush | Associated Press
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The air in the parking lot of Orlando’s Citrus Bowl smells like fresh cut oranges, shrimp and barbecue. A crowd has gathered before the game around a guy in a black chef’s coat. A camera crew orbits as he sets some shrimp and star melon kebabs [...]
Millions of Families Three Months Away from Poverty
Susannah Nesmith | Special to Equal Voice News
February 1, 2012
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MIAMI ‒ When it’s time for bed, 10-year-old Miguel Abreu retrieves a deflated air mattress wedged between a bookcase and the wall in his aunt’s tiny apartment in Florida City, south of Miami. He quietly unfolds it in the middle of the dining/living room and hooks up [...]
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Food stamp families to critics: Walk in our shoes
Jesse Washington | AP National Writer
January 26, 2012
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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 in common: They’re all on food stamps. As the food stamp program has become an issue in the Republican [...]
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Ala. Family Lives Amid Rubble From April Tornado
Jay Reese | Associated Press
January 10, 2012
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Geraldine Horton steps out of her apartment into a broken world that looks much as it did the day after a killer tornado plowed through town last spring. Buildings are sliced in two across the street from her home and next door; broken bricks litter her [...]
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2011 Job Hopes Improved Most for Worst-Hit Groups
Derek Kravitz | Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP)
January 6, 2012
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NGTON (AP) — For many people whose job prospects faded most during the recession, 2011 brought a small dose of relief. When unemployment was surging, the youngest U.S. workers, the oldest, those without college degrees and men as a whole all suffered disproportionately. Last year, those groups — whose unemployment [...]
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Calif. Schools Lead the Way Preparing Next Generation of Workers: Latinos
Kathy Mulady | Equal Voice News
December 22, 2011
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In 2011, for the first time, more Latino students than white students applied for admission to California State University’s 23 campuses. The numbers reflect not only the state’s growing Latino population, but also the impact of early education programs that are paying off with more Latinos graduating from high [...]
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Census Shows 1 in 2 People are Poor or Low-Income
Hope Yen | Associated Press
December 16, 2011
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans — nearly 1 in 2 — have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income. The latest census data depict a middle class that’s shrinking as unemployment stays high and [...]
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purpose room at Longwood Elementary School in Hayward, Calif., each one was recognized and honored as they graduated from the Parent Institute for Quality Education (PIQE) program. The parents, who all have elementary school-age children, took the course to learn how to be more involved and knowledgeable about [...]
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Agricultural Program Helps Keep Youth out of Gangs
Gosia Wonzmiack | Associated Press
November 21, 2011
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WOODLAKE, Calif. (AP) — When Manuel Jimenez first set eyes on the land below a levee, thick with brush and weeds, the one-time field worker envisioned a place where youngsters could escape the temptations of gang life and learn about the Central Valley’s most vital industry. But, like many places [...]
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First Lady Talks About Access to Food in Chicago
By Sophia Tareen | Associated Press CHICAGO — First lady Michelle
October 26, 2011
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le Obama said Tuesday that parents can’t be expected to give their children healthy food if they don’t have good options for groceries nearby. Obama, who is leading a nationwide effort to lower childhood obesity rates, spoke at a Chicago Walgreens store that had expanded [...]
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