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A more accurate measure of poverty?

by Amy Scott
Sep 15, 2015
A look behind the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure.
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Grocery exodus has Flint shopping for answers

by Adam Allington
May 22, 2015
Flint's 100,000 people now have only one major store within city limits.
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Baltimore's $100 million investment legacy

by Caitlin Esch
May 22, 2015
The city's efforts to alleviate poverty date back decades, with lasting effects.
A view of downtown Baltimore. Twenty years ago, the city received $100 million as part of a federal program to target the nation's poorest neighborhoods.
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How many jobs does $100 million get you?

by Caitlin Esch
May 20, 2015
Baltimore's "Empowerment Zones" offer a history of qualified success.
The outside of the shuttered FMC Corp. plant in Baltimore. The plant used to produce insecticides and other agricultural chemicals, but in 2008, the company moved its operations overseas to save costs. About 150 employees were laid off.
Caitlin Esch
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The global influence of hip hop and breakdancing

by Kai Ryssdal and Daisy Palacios
May 19, 2015
Filmmaker Adam Sjöberg chronicles the lives of b-boys and girls around the world.
Breakdancers in Cambodia.
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What pushes people up the economic ladder

by Krissy Clark
Apr 17, 2015
Researchers have discovered factors that may help economic mobility.
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Tiny houses give homeless a foothold

by Sam Harnett
Mar 17, 2015
Greg Kloehn builds homes out of recycled materials and gives them to the homeless.
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Poor children, a new majority in public schools

by Amy Scott
Jan 16, 2015
More than half of U.S. public school students come from low-income families, report says.
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The American Indian College Fund turns 25

by Amy Scott
Oct 20, 2014
The fund aims to bolster lagging American Indian graduation rates.
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The numbers for September 16, 2014

by Tony Wagner
Sep 16, 2014
Poverty, Internet drones and space taxis; here are the numbers we're watching.
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