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Rochester poverty
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Warren, 30,000 jobs, and the state of politics
Development, crime, and poverty are complicated. But voters don’t want anything to be complicated. So political candidates keep things simple.
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Feedback 4/26
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Urban Action 4/26
This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Examining anti-poverty program The League of Women Voters will present a panel discussion May 1 on the topic: “Can Monroe County Reduce Poverty by 50 Percent in 15 Years?” Panelists will be Tori […]
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Perspectives: James Norman
Few people have developed a better understanding of the area’s poverty, the needs of low-income families and children, and the importance of fostering self-sufficiency than the retiring president and CEO of Action for a Better Community.
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Vargas out: Impossible job claims another superintendent
This is not a Rochester problem. It is a problem facing every urban school district in the country.
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Tackling poverty when we don’t like the remedy
We keep treating the concentration of poverty as if it were simply a city problem – and a city school district problem.
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A zero-waste world
Khoury Humphrey has a philosophy: to ignore a problem is to condone it. This viewpoint led him to begin thinking of ways to feed the homeless and poor in the City of Rochester, and to eventually form Flower City Pickers — an idea he came up with while recovering from an illness earlier this year. […]
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Feedback 6/3
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Feedback 5/27
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Feedback 5/20
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On my mind (still): poverty and the city
We’ve tried to combat major community problems previously, in the same way. And we’ve gotten the same sad results.
