This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Rochester in the ’60’s Monroe Community College’s Institute for the Humanities will present “Rochester Remembers the 1960’s: The Legacy of Social justice Activism” on Friday, October 12. The program will use lectures, film, […]
Rochester poverty rate
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Mayor Warren’s goal for a poverty-stressed city
People with few skills used to be able to earn a decent living in the country’s factories. That’s no longer true.
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Feedback 11/15
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People of color much worse off here, report says
African Americans and Latinx in the nine-county Greater Rochester area are more than three times as likely to be poor as whites are. The median household income for African Americans is less than half that of whites, and the statistic is only slightly better for Latinx. Whites are more than twice as likely to own […]
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What can we do about our high poverty rate?
There’s no one solution to concentrated poverty. And nothing we have to do will be simple.
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Our crisis of poverty, racism, and segregation
This has to be an almost dizzyingly heady time for Lovely Warren. On January 1, she’ll be sworn in as Rochester’s mayor, the first woman to hold that position. Her administrative appointments are getting positive reviews. Last week, she joined other newly elected mayors at the White House for a discussion with President Obama. But […]
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Schools, neighborhoods,and the future of the city
Every once in a while, the topic of neighborhood schools comes up in Rochester. And while part of this stems from nostalgia, there’s also a fiscal argument. The Rochester school district spends a lot of money busing children to schools outside of their neighborhood. The reason: the district’s “school choice” system, which lets parents choose […]
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Partisanship, poverty, and paychecks
In his State of the Union address, President Obama issued a challenge: “Tonight, let’s declare that in the wealthiest nation on earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour.” On this he finds support from Governor Cuomo, who proposes increasing the […]
