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Latinos in the South often targets of abuse

Original source: Low-income Latinos have become growing targets across the South. In a report released this week by the Southern Poverty Law Center, poor Latinos described life in the South as living in a 'war zone.'...

Student loan reform: Obama to take on banks and their ‘army of lobbyists’

On a major education reform offensive this week, President Obama met with working families struggling to pay college expenses for their children. During that meeting at the White House Friday, April 24th, the president announced a...

1 million kids may have lead poisoning: what you can do

Three hundred thousand children in the United States are documented as having lead poisoning. Due to poor reporting practices and failure of the health care system to test all children between 1 and 5 years of...

At home in union-made utopia: PBS looks at the housing co-op movement

Original source: Three elderly New Yorkers—Yok Ziebel, Julie Luguvoy and Pete Rosenblum—are meeting at the apartment complex in the Bronx where they grew up together. They embrace with all of the affection of lifelong friends. They...

Cartoon: What good are they?