'Sesame Street' tackles poverty with new muppet
theGRIO REPORT - The hot pink puppet with a purple nose and turquoise eyelids will make her debut in a PBS special called 'Growing Hope Against Hunger'...
Flint’s economic fall like none other in the country
theGRIO REPORT - It was a city that was integral to the birth of the auto industry. It fell quicker and harder than any other Midwestern city...
Edelman: HBCUs 'more important now than ever'
theGRIO Q&A - theGrio caught up with Edelman for a one on one interview about the state of education and black America during a recent Public Policy Town Hall aimed at improving the quality of life of all citizens...
Cleveland provides bleak view of poverty's peak
theGRIO REPORT - Ohio's unemployment rate is at 9.1 percent as of August. Combine that with the high poverty rate, and there is a massive problem...
Why new poverty numbers should be a wake-up call
OPINION - The increasing number of blacks falling into poverty and out of the middle class means we are not only failing to make progress, we are going backward...
Census: US poverty rate swells to nearly 1 in 6
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Census Bureau reports the number of Americans in poverty jumped to 15.1 percent in 2010, a 27-year high.
Obama: 'The most important poverty program is a job'
NIGHTLY NEWS - Brian Williams asked Obama about African-American sentiment towards the unemployment rate and whether or not he has been negligent about their concerns....
Why is Mississippi so red when it’s so black?
OPINION - Oddly, the blackest, poorest and most federally-dependent state in America is also the most conservative state, according to a Gallup poll taken earlier this year...
Welfare reform 15 years later: Clinton's worst move
OPINION - Fifteen years later, the nation is stuck with a reform that did indeed end welfare as we know it. The price for that was to increase poverty for the millions that we also know...
National child welfare survey examines recession
LAS VEGAS (AP) - "My biggest fear is not providing my daughter with everything that she needs to be a balanced child, to be independent, to be safe, to feel like she is of value," said Washington, 41...
