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March 14, 2011
OPINION - Head Start, the popular preschool program serving nearly a million lower income children, has come under attack from…
February 15, 2011
OPINION - One reason is a failure to develop what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called permanent units of political…
February 10, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Obama calls the newly repurposed Office of Public Engagement the "front door" of his White House and…
January 21, 2011
OPINION - We cannot afford a fiscal policy that sacrifices the resources vital to the survival of low-income people and…
December 8, 2010
OPINION - To date, over 25 million children have participated in Head Start programs, with billions spent in over a…
November 9, 2010
OPINION - The most salient factor nowadays revolves around a sense that parents have nearly abrogated their responsibility to nurture…
July 22, 2010
OPINION - Are either his credibility issues or his tenuous hold on his job a function of his status as…
July 6, 2010
PHOENIX (AP) - The lawsuit will argue that the new measure requiring state and local police to question and possibly…
July 1, 2010
OPINION - This will be the first time in U.S. history that unemployment benefits are allowed to expire when the…
June 29, 2010
From The New York Times - New York's Bloomberg administration lags behind other cities and even the Giuliani era in…
May 2, 2010
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - Obama said Saturday that partisan rants and name-calling under the guise of legitimate discourse pose…
April 23, 2010
PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday neared a deadline to act on the nation's toughest legislation against…
April 19, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Public confidence in government is at one of the lowest points in a half century, according to…
April 14, 2010
OPINION - I am deeply distressed when a group of organized, active-duty personnel seem to suggest that a coup is…
March 26, 2010
OPINION - Instead of empowerment, the National Urban League report emphasizes dependency...
March 23, 2010
The skepticism that many show toward the Census is understandable and in many ways, justified. But is apathy toward this…
March 19, 2010
VIDEO - The federal government wants more power over what your kids eat at school and not just in the…
February 5, 2010
VIDEO - At the first day of the National Tea Party Convention, the scene was far more subdued, but the…
December 11, 2009
VIDEO - TheGrio and CNBC team up to deliver a weekly wrap up of money matters and market updates for…
November 17, 2009
VIDEO - The government now says women under 50 who are not high risk don't need mammograms...