Posts tagged Poverty
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Breakfast links: Getting around Montgomery
Share the lines; No MoCo authority; ACT against Chevy Chase; Wrong pop-up plan; CaBi upgrade disrupts; How to house the homeless; Anchors weigh down dead malls; Competing with Uber; Tax man comes for Airbnb; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Inequality hits home
Inequality grows in DC; Stay or go; Weekend woes; MoCo CaBi; Powerful women; Not free to be free range; Firefighters win lawsuit; London commits to bikes; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Out of batteries
Less money from cameras; Watch out for drivers; Black gold in Virginia?; Broke in Bethesda; Homeless hotels; A county underwater; Boost biking; Bowser meets Boehner; Dig into Metro ridership; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Just an inch
Nor’easter; Emergency training; Pop-up primer; Authority for Montgomery?; Minimize parking; Metro affluence; Dependent downsides; City limits or region?; And…. Keep reading…
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A book-of-the-month club for infants and toddlers aims to narrow the achievement gap
A new proposal to send a book a month to every DC child under five could help narrow the yawning literacy gap between poor and higher-income kids, which has its roots well before kindergarten. But ultimately, disadvantaged kids will need a lot more assistance than a book a month to catch up to their more affluent peers. Spurred by low achievement among DC’s low-income and… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Accumulation
Storm’s a-comin’; When was “peak car”?; Mixed results for mixed-income; Charge on I-95; More than one way to zero; School cuts; Redevelopment in trouble; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The good, the bad, and the ugly
No ‘free-range’ kids; Legalize Airbnb; Old school or new school; Higher wages for VA; A safer Prince George’s; Proxy War; Parking oversupplied; Retire to NYC; And…. Keep reading…
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The new chair of the DC Council’s education committee promises a change in style and substance
At-Large Councilmember David Grosso plans to adopt a less aggressive style than David Catania, his predecessor as education committee chair. Grosso says his main focus will be getting disadvantaged kids the services they need to do well in school. Back in December of 2012, David Catania was chomping at the bit to become chair of the education committee. “I’m so… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Parking to parks
Park pops-up in Tysons; Park off limits to residents; Mayor Gray’s legacy; HOT Lanes then and now; Poverty, desperation, and stroads; Can’t walk; Food, food everywhere; Next stop: confusion; Not just for kids; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Trains ready to move
Back on track; Streetcar start?; Not so fast; Montgomery moves; More silver for transit center; Who’s running?; And…. Keep reading…