Posts tagged Poverty
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Breakfast links: Maryland turns purple
Purple pulls through the state; Weigh in on the wage; Housing for all in Arlington; Strip club shutdown; College Park to college town; Not so easy to rename; Transit in bloom; Less teens on the road. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro closes doors?
Serious Metro shutdown?; School segregation squashed; Purple Line price; The Potomac River recovers; Strike back on schedule; Baltimore’s transportation choices; Shorter SNAP. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Avoiding meltdowns, nuclear and commuter
Security summit traffic; Exelon deal or no deal; Trail-oriented is the new black; At the Monument, take the stairs; Lap of non-luxury; Fake grass, real problems; The struggle (to pay rent) is real; A boom with a view; Ever-expanding highways; And…. Keep reading…
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At a hearing on DC General, opposition runs the gamut from rational to prejudicial
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has a plan to close DC General and put smaller homeless shelters in all eight wards of the city. There’s a lot of opposition, ranging from concerns about shelters going up in dangerous places to positions that seem more about keeping poor minorities out of certain parts of the city. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Fray and fate
Metro’s inspection problem; $15 minimum wage?; MoCo says no to accessible ride hailing; DC budget priorities; Reston revolution; Vision Zero, Waze style?; Short on homes. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Minimum wage, maximum security
DC’s State of the Union; Metro security, post-Brussels; Metro after the shutdown; Strike out at DCA; Homebuyers can’t start, won’t start; DC’s tiny aparments; Church for sale; A stadium, by any other name; Under the cobblestones, the BEACH; Baltimore not feeling the burn. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Budget bliss and big boulevards
Budget autonomy for the District; Wide plans for Rockville Pike; Bye bye Bi-County Parkway; Lyft discrimination; DCRA’s document drag; Metro-free nuclear zone; Proximity is key; Federally walk-blocked; What’s in a name?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Honestly
Frank and fixing; Honest BART; Council scrutinizes shelter plan; W&OD at Wiehle; No more institutionalization; Beer garden at bat; Driven to serve; Co-everything. Keep reading…
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Our region’s poor residents felt the Metro shutdown the most
When Metro shut down for 29 hours this week, some people had other options for getting to and from work. But many of the region’s low-income workers, who depend on transit more than others, were left in the lurch. Keep reading…
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Here’s how incomes have changed in DC since 2000
Over 20% of DC’s households make less than $25,000 per year. About the same number make over $150,000. That first group has has shrunk since 2000, when it accounted for over 30% of the population, while the number of high-income residents has more than doubled. Keep reading…