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JROTC military courses
December 12, 2022
Schools across the country with majority nonwhite and low-income students are forcing pupils into J.R.O.T.C. courses.
May 11, 2022
Low-income renters in Detroit who are facing eviction can now receive free legal assistance thanks to a newly passed ordinance.
April 21, 2022
AT&T has contributed $500,000 to PCs for People in Baltimore to provide free access to digital tools for low-income students.
March 5, 2022
Thousands of low-income drivers in North Carolina may seek the restoration of their suspended licenses following the settlement of a…
Lori Lightfoot Chicago City So Real thegrio.com
February 27, 2022
Chicago is launching a guaranteed basic income program supporting 5,000 low-income residents with $500 monthly issuances for a full year.
Cafeteria theGrio.com
August 27, 2021
The Waukesha school board in Wisconsin has opted out of a federal program which would give all students free lunch…
August 6, 2014
OPINION - Yet another struggling low-income single mom has been criminalized for buckling under the pressures of being a working…
July 8, 2014
MSNBC - Before the housing crisis, lawmakers and lenders might have gone out of their way to help aspiring homeowners…
February 9, 2014
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) — Studies show poorer children enter school having heard millions of fewer words than more affluent…
November 23, 2013
NBC News - Mesha Exum wonders how her life would have turned out without a stroke of good luck 11…
October 26, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A recently proposed Pennsylvania House bill that would have limited benefits to low-income women who give birth…
October 25, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A recently proposed Pennsylvania House bill is seeking to limit welfare benefits to low-income women who give…
May 10, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - City leaders are advocating for so called "responsible ordinances" to evaluate banks investment strategies and encourage banks…
December 15, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans -- nearly 1 in 2 -- have…
April 19, 2011
MSNBC - For one small black town near Lake Michigan, things are about to change drastically thanks to a controversial…
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
The statewide statistics highlight a pervasive achievement gap in test scores and graduation rates that persists despite focused efforts to…
April 6, 2010
VIDEO - Only 11 percent of students in the first generation of their families to graduate college successfully complete school,…
December 18, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) - The government has asked a federal judge to let it cut ACORN's funding, saying a report…
October 6, 2009
VIDEO - ACORN's CEO responded to the recent allegations that the group misused federal dollars and gave advice to people…