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February 3, 2012
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Mitt Romney says he misspoke when he said he was not very concerned about poor people...
February 2, 2012
OPINION - Mitt Romney, who has built his entire campaign on the premise that he's a businessman who knows how…
February 1, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney told CNN in an interview Thursday the 'very poor, that's not my focus'...
January 11, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A new study shows that the conflicts between the rich and poor in this country have risen…
January 6, 2012
OPINION - Racial drama from the presidential campaign seems never ending. At the center is government benefits programs. Rick Santorum…
December 15, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans -- nearly 1 in 2 -- have…
December 8, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Affluent black Americans who are leaving industrial cities for the suburbs and the South are shifting traditional…
December 5, 2011
TheGRIO REPORT - At a press conference with reality TV show host Donald Trump, Gingrich suggested Trump create a new…
December 5, 2011
OPINION - As we approach the Christmas holidays, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich appears to be taking his political cues…
December 2, 2011
OPINION - The former Speaker proposes that in poor neighborhoods, the 'schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors,…
October 27, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - U.S census numbers have given the city a new label that's nothing to be proud of, but…
September 13, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Census Bureau reports the number of Americans in poverty jumped to 15.1 percent in 2010, a…
August 3, 2011
OPINION - According to new analysis of census data, the most successful blacks and Latinos are more likely to have…
July 22, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Cornel West, Princeton professor and celebrated black intellectual, refers to Obama as a "mascot" and a "puppet"…
July 21, 2011
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - Many states hit hardest by this week's searing heat wave have drastically cut or entirely…
March 14, 2011
OPINION - Head Start, the popular preschool program serving nearly a million lower income children, has come under attack from…
January 5, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - At the same time, government aid programs such as tax credits and food stamps kept many people…
March 31, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - An experimental anti-poverty program that pays the poor for maintaining good habits has not exactly been…
March 24, 2010
The bill that President Obama signed on Tuesday is the federal government's biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began…
March 24, 2010
OPINION - By choosing to represent the interests of poor people and minorities in a capitalist democracy, the forces of…