Posts tagged Poverty
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Breakfast links: Eminent, imminent
Stadium negotiations; Trash or treasure; The name game; Enough with the monuments; Shelter successes; Election timing; Cell correlation; How to win a bike lane; And…. Keep reading…
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Low-income DC students get a helping hand to make it to college graduation
It’s tough for low-income minority students to make it through college, especially if they’re first-generation college-goers. But thanks to the efforts of one DC nonprofit and several charter schools, students from the District may have a better chance than most. More and more DC students are taking the SAT and applying to college, but how many are actually graduating? Because… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Helping with housing
Housing homeless vets; IZ is creating housing; Potomac faces threats; Negligence going down; Paper slowing down streetcar; Purple brings the green; Woodmont Plaza gets a makeover; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Endangered species
Desperately seeking tiny shrimp; Race to replace Bowser; Preservation ethics; Federal workers feel transit pinch; More crosswalks, more gridlock?; Housing homeless vets; Light rail in Research Triangle; And…. Keep reading…
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DC students flock to afterschool programs, but many low-income students are still left out
A new nationwide survey of parents shows the District has the highest afterschool participation rate in the United States. On the other hand, DC is 49th in the percentage of low-income children enrolled. The survey, conducted by a nonprofit called the Afterschool Alliance, ranked DC second only to California on overall measures of afterschool, including both participation… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Boo-st to the economy?
MLK Library needs more; Big money for pot; Walmart squeezes small businesses; Ways to deal with Uber; You forgot data; Fall back early; More diversity on bikes; Sprawl leads to unemployment; Bikes boost Memphis; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Fight for infrastructure
Stadium delay; Pay to play; Bikeshare buyout; Bourgeois bikeshare; Streetcar “referendum”; Not a war; A bad deal; Put a parking garage on it; Happy birthday. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More places to bike
Klingle getting built; CaBi expanding in Arlington; Shovel, Montgomery; Will the stadium community benefit?; Belvoir boom burgeons; Abandoned homes to affordable housing; Transportation answers; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Vote early
Vote now; Parking makes way for sidewalks; Region prepares for mini-Olympics; Doctrine of self-preservation; How to get everyone biking; Building from a position of strength; UN investigates access to water; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Volunteers needed
The new way to pay fares; Get dense; DC General gets a playground; Street Sense human cameras?; Dig into DC’s past; Not a giant rebate; No more Hailo; So close yet so far; Bike crashes up and down; And…. Keep reading…