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 [...]
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By most measures, Harrison Kim is a successful high school student. Not only does he have stellar grades, the 18-year-old senior from Sammamish, WA, also plays guitar in a high school rock band and regularly performs volunteer work. Now, he faces one of the most daunting rites [...]
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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 [...]
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HOLLANDALE, Miss. – For a few nights earlier this year, 24-year-old Quincy Mackin slept with his high school diploma hugged up under his chin. No surprise, perhaps, when you learn that Mackin didn’t receive the document until last December or that he’d struggled for years to earn it. Or [...]
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In America, where we celebrate success above all, the worst thing a person can be is poor. For much of her adult life, Tinsa Hall felt like she had it made, at least relative to where she’d been. She lived in a six-bedroom home on a wide, tree-lined street [...]
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ws They were two boys, high school basketball stars hanging around a Chicago candy store, dreaming of NBA fame. And it might have happened if Benjy Wilson, 17, had not been shot there on the street for the crime of bumping into another youth. Today, the shooter, who was 16 [...]
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On a crisp morning in October, 300 low-income families and their allies – all members of a movement known as the Equal Voice Coalition – gathered at a hotel in San Francisco with an ambitious goal: Together, they would spend the next nine hours devising strategies to push the [...]
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At the age of 44, Joyce Parker had spent almost her entire life in the Mississippi Delta town of Greenville. But she had almost no sense of the way local government ran. Without children of her own, Parker saw little reason to attend a school board meeting and could [...]
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Apr 17 2012
Michael Seifert | Rio Grande Valley Equal Voice Network Compañero. The word means “companion,” and is from the Latin, meaning “the one I share bread with.” A compañero, then, is someone with whom you share the bread of life—be it the bread of the day’s hopes and dreams, struggles and disappointments, or blessings and bounding happiness, which, experienced alone, remain Read more →
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