School Funding Inequity Forces Poor Cities Like Reading, Pa., To Take Huge Cuts
READING, Pa. -- The day before school starts, 8-year-old Tianna wakes up worried. She's worried about the cafeteria food that she receives for free, because usually "it's nasty.www.huffingtonpost.com
Honduran politicians give free coffins to poor
The program, according to Castillo, "is part of the political campaign" of Tegucigalpa Mayor Ricardo Alvarez to help the city's poorest neighborhoods. Alvarez, who founded the charity and is a presidential hopeful for 2013, secured $230,000 in ...www.kansascity.com
Plan for Charter City to Fight Honduras Poverty Loses Its Initiator
What if you simply sweep aside the corruption, the self-interested elites, and the distorted economic rules that stifle growth in many poor countries and set up a brand new city with its own law and governance? The charter city, as Mr. Romer calls it ...www.nytimes.com
Measure of US home prices rises by most in 6 years
The Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller index rose in July compared with a year ago, the second straight yearly increase after two years of declines.www.kansascity.com
Poor urban planning plagued cities with problems: Experts
ISLAMABAD, Oct 01 (APP): Experts on Monday termed poor urban planning as main reason for mounting problems in our cities and urged holistic approach to deal with challenges ahead in view of massive influx into urban settlements.Speaking at a function ...app.com.pk
Hartford Highlights a State's Divide
The city is now divided between relatively well-off neighborhoods such as the West End and the downtown business district, and poor areas like the North and South Ends heavily populated by black and Hispanic residents. Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra said ...online.wsj.com
Hungary seeking slot machine ban to protect poor
CBS4 - WHBF Quad Cities, IL-IA News Weather SportsHungary seeking slot machine ban to protect poor. Member Center: Create Account|; Log In; Manage Account|; Log Out.www.whbf.com
Do the Poor Have a Voice?
Communities like Las Cruces, which is the second most populous city in the state of New Mexico, have extremely large populations of non-whites, in a state which has one of the highest immigrant populations in the nation.www.huffingtonpost.com
Urban master plans ignore poor: Minister
"Even though more than 80 percent of the population in our cities belong to poor and low-income groups yet these master plans are based on the space requirement norms of the average middle class residents.twocircles.net
Income Data Shows Widening Gap Between New York City's Richest and Poorest
The rich got richer and the poor got poorer in New York City last year as the poverty rate reached its highest point in more than a decade, and the income gap in Manhattan, already wider than almost anywhere else in the country, rivaled disparities in ...www.nytimes.com
Iloilo City senior citizens get Q3 pension
LOILO CITY, Oct 2 (PIA) -- Poor senior citizens numbering 15,743 in Western Visayas will now receive their P500 monthly pension for the third quarter of this year provided by the government to augment their daily subsistence and medical needs.www.pia.gov.ph
US Military Sprayed Poor Communities with Radioactive Chemical
According to Martino-Taylor, the Army and others were actually poisoning residents of St. Louis and other cities with a dangerous compound composed of zinc cadmium sulfide and radioactive elements.www.popdecay.com
Jobs with high development payoffs can transform societies and spur prosperity
They are critical for reducing poverty, making cities work, and providing youth with alternatives to violence, says a new World Bank report.www.nationmultimedia.com
Poor healthcare in Quetta
Quetta is considered the most developed city of the province. In fact, poorly developed infrastructure, deteriorating security situation and population explosion has made Quetta not worthy of being the capital of the province.dawn.com
SPECIAL REPORT: How to transform Hamilton
The best teachers should be placed in the poorest-performing schools. 3. Before-school and after-school programs should be available at every school in the lower city, heavily subsidized for the neediest parents. 4. Integrate day-care programs for ...www.thespec.com
Home prices rose in July in 20 major cities
Sponsored Links. Home prices are continuing to improve, further evidence of the housing market's growing health. Prices in July rose 1.6% from June and 0.4% when adjusted for seasonal factors, according to the 20-city Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller index.www.usatoday.com
Cities on the Edge
Most powerful of all is Luis Ospina's 28-minute mockumentary ("The Vampires of Poverty") about the poor people of Cali, with paid actors, written lines and a borrowed set.online.wsj.com
City to Add Pre-K Efforts in Poor Areas Next Year
Published: September 24, 2012. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Monday that the city would open a new type of preschool in Brooklyn next year, introducing a cradle-to-kindergarten approach to education for very young children in poor neighborhoods.www.nytimes.com
Denver B-Cycle program faces criticism that it skirts poor, minorities
The Denver B-Cycle program - hailed as a progressive and green way to get people out of their cars and onto bikes - now is being criticized as an elite folly that has ignored poor and minority residents. The City Council votes Monday on whether to ...www.denverpost.com
Reading no longer ranked as 'poorest city in the nation'
Does that mean we should not have been ID'd as the poorest city last year? Yeah. Does that also mean we can't take credit for not being the poorest this year?www.ydr.com
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