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Rapper Rhymefest could be on Chicago City Council

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CHICAGO (AP) - Rhymefest paints himself as an alternative to business as usual for the 20th Ward, which includes some of the poorest and highest-crime areas of Chicago...
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Low income blacks biggest victims of GOP budget cuts

Monique W. Morris
OPINION - We cannot afford a fiscal policy that sacrifices the resources vital to the survival of low-income people and people of color...
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Deep layoffs take effect in struggling NJ city

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CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - More than half of Camden's 80,000 residents, mostly black and Hispanic, live in poverty...
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US Census: Number of poor may be millions higher

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WASHINGTON (AP) - At the same time, government aid programs such as tax credits and food stamps kept many people out of poverty...
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Why blacks may be biggest victims of climate change

Jennifer H. Cunningham
theGRIO REPORT - The problems urban areas already face, like pollution, over-development, and inadequate infrastructure, could exacerbate climate change's effects...
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Haiti candidates add cholera to list of problems

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CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti (AP) - The rapidly spreading disease is even infecting the presidential campaign, with candidates trying both to protect themselves and prevent fear of cholera...
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New black GOP Rep: Capitalism cure for poverty

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina state Rep. Tim Scott, elected this week as one of the nation's first black GOP congressmen in years, says conservatives need to sell capitalism...
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In Haiti, cholera could heighten earthquake misery

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - If efforts to keep cholera out of the camps fail, "The worst case would be that we have hundreds of thousands of people getting sick"...
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163 Haitian students receive free housing in Senegal

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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - The young men and women arrived in a chartered jet late Wednesday and were given T-shirts to wear that said: "Thank You President Abdoulaye Wade."...
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Five reasons why Obama should raise taxes on the rich

Earl Ofari Hutchinson
OPINON - President Obama must dig in hard on this one. The breaks must go, and the reasons why aren't hard to find...
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