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April 24, 2024
Carriage Green at Milford Assisted Living Community Named One of the Country's Best by U.S. News & World Report for Third St
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Ohmium Partners with Tata Projects to Advance Green Hydrogen Initiatives in India
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On the Road Lending Announces Expansion into North Carolina
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The Village at Willow Crossings Assisted Living Community Named One of the Country's Best by U.S. News & World Report for Th
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Benchmark Senior Living at Hamden Assisted Living Community Named One of the Country's Best by U.S. News & World Report
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MONAT Global Announces The Growth Alliance with Eric Worre
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ERI’s John Shegerian Calls the Recycling of Electronics “the Most Urgently Needed Environmental Solution of Our Gene
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Arbor Day Foundation’s ‘Canopy Report’ Examines How America Sees Trees
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Local Students From Orange Mound, Collierville, Whitehaven, Hickory Hill, Frayser, and South Memphis Gather at Ruth's Chris to L
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The Fresh Market Elevates the Food Scene in Lakewood Ranch with Newest Store
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The Birches at Concord Assisted Living Community Named One of the Country's Best by U.S. News & World Report for Third Strai
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Bay Square at Yarmouth Assisted Living Community Named One of the Country's Best by U.S. News & World Report for Third Strai
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Talking Math: WPI Researcher Neil Heffernan Leads Effort To Develop AI Math Tutor
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Capitol Ridge at Providence Assisted Living Community Named One of the Country's Best by U.S. News & World Report for Third
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Benchmark at Stamford Assisted Living Community Named One of the Country's Best by U.S. News & World Report for Second Strai
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AVI Systems and Technology Partners Team to Contribute More Than $110,000 to the AVIXA Foundation’s Brad Sousa Impact Fund
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Middlebrook Farms at Trumbull Assisted Living Community Named One of the Country's Best by U.S. News & World Report for Thir
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ESS Inc. Schedules First Quarter 2024 Financial Results Conference Call
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Santiago, Chile Will Host the 2027 Special Olympics World Games
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Crimes Against Latinos Up 46 Percent In CA
August 15, 2011
California Attorney General Kamala Harris' report on hate crimes showed that hate crimes against Latinos increased from 81 in 2009 to 119 in 2010, a 46.9-percent jump. "A crime that is motivated by hate is a crime against all people," Attorney General Harris said. "We will monitor and prosecute these cases to the fullest extent of the law." The Attorney General's report, "Hate Crime in California 2010" ...
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Fifty Percent Of Voters Want NY Gov Paterson To Finish Term
March 10, 2010
In this latest survey, black voters disapprove 40 – 35 percent of the job Paterson is doing, but say 70 – 24 percent that he ...
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New Report: Minority Contractors Receive Just 2 Percent Of Highway Stimulus Cash
February 05, 2010
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Black, Hispanic Leaders Protest
Abortion 'Supercenter'
January 18, 2010
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California Under-employment Rate Reaches 16.2 Percent; 3.2 Million People
July 17, 2009
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Seventy Percent of Small Businesses Anticipate Growth in 2009 According to Survey
June 18, 2009
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FBI Inspector General Reports 35 Percent Error Rate On Terror Watchlist
May 07, 2009
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Chrysler dealers down 10 percent since '08; Minority dealerships hit hardest
May 05, 2009
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Percentage of black players in MLB rises
April 16, 2009
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UCLA admits 12,098 freshman for fall; slightly higher percentage of minorities
April 08, 2009
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Minorities' businesses to get 25 percent of contracts in FL
April 07, 2009
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Senate approves modifications to top 10 percent law
March 25, 2009
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PHYSICAL ABUSE RAISES WOMEN’S HEALTH COSTS OVER 40 PERCENT
March 25, 2009
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USC Study: Black Girls 50 Percent More Likely To Be Bulimic than White Girls
March 18, 2009
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One in Every 31 Adults in Prison; Prison Spending Outpaces All but Medicaid; Higher Minority Percentage
March 03, 2009
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Research: Minority Children Need Strategies To Fight Obesity
September 08, 2011
The White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity, created by the president as part of the first lady's "Let's Move" campaign, aims to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation, returning the country to a rate of 5 percent by 2030, which was the rate before childhood obesity first began to rise in the late 1970s. ...
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BLACKS EYE OBAMA'S JOBS SPEECH
September 08, 2011
Ahead of President Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress tonight, Black California Congresswoman Maxine Water's is putting the pressure on the president to make clear just what it is he plans to do to help the communities suffering the most in this bad economy. In a statement issued today, Waters challenged the president to, "spend as much energy working to create jobs in the black community as he is campaigning for votes in one of the whitest states in the nation." ...
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Despite Bleak Jobs Market Minorities Still Optimistic
September 08, 2011
- Findings from the Blair-Rockefeller Poll challenge long-held assumptions about the impact of the economy on political attitudes and voting behaviors, according to a new report released today by political scientist Todd Shields. The report, “The Economy Across Race and Region: Unemployment Fails to Dampen Positive Outlook Among African Americans ...
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Obama Black Approval Hits New Low
September 08, 2011
President Barack Obama earned the lowest monthly job approval rating of his presidency to date in August, with 41% of U.S. adults approving of his overall job performance, down from 44% in July. He also received term-low monthly job approval ...
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Food Insecurity Higher In Minority Households
September 08, 2011
The USDA today released a new report of Food Security in the U.S.. The report showed that food insecurity rates were substantially higher than the national average for households with incomes near or below the current federal poverty line ($22,350 for a family of four), households with children headed by single women ...
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Latinos Become Majority In Federal Prisons
September 08, 2011
A new report from the U.S. Sentencing Commission reveals, for the first time, Latinos make up more than half of all federal felony offenders sentenced so far this year. The report shows that Latinos comprised 50.3 percent of all federal felony offenders sentenced in the first nine months of fiscal year 2011. Felony immigration crimes accounted for most of the increase. Hispanics outnumber all other ethnic groups ...
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Peer Pressure Puts Black Girls At Higher HIV Risk
September 07, 2011
In a recent study involving 64 African American adolescent girls ages 14 to 17, researchers found that up to 59% of the study’s subjects experienced sexual abuse that included threats, verbal coercion, condom coercion and physical violence. Of the 64 interviewed, unwanted sex made up 30% and 9% respectively of the abuse cases. ...
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Black Contractors To Protest Mississippi Bridge Project
September 07, 2011
Work on the new $700 million Mississippi River Bridge north of downtown St. Louis could come to a halt next week. East St. Louis Mayor Alvin Parks and the Metro-East Black Contractors Organization announced their plans ...
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Report: Poverty Linked To Minority Health
September 07, 2011
After a decade-long rise in concentrated poverty, one in 11 residents of metropolitan areas now live in communities where at least 30 percent of their neighbors are poor, according to a pair of studies unveiled today by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. The reports, A Lost Decade: Neighborhood Poverty and the Urban Crisi ...
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Minorities Targeted By War On Terrorism
September 07, 2011
An investigation by the Center for Investigative Reporting into the counter-terrorism program at the Mall of America near Minneapolis, found that it often ensnares seemingly innocent people with the FBI and other law enforcement organizations. Ever since 9/11, the nation’s leaders have warned that government agencies can’t protect ...
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NAACP Intervenes In Florida Minority Voting Rights Case
September 07, 2011
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) has filed a motion seeking to intervene in a lawsuit on behalf of the Florida State Conference of the NAACP and Black voters to prevent the State of Florida from implementing discriminatory voting laws. In the lawsuit, Florida v. United States, Florida asks a federal court to approve, under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, voting measures that would significantly alter Florida's voting process. ...
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Few Blacks Wear Seatbelts
September 06, 2011
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), the No. 1 leading cause of unintentional injury death for all Blacks is motor vehicle crashes. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for Blacks ages 1 to 14. Of those killed while passengers in a vehicle, 52 percent of Black children were not restrained at the time of the crash. Though wearing a seat belt is the best way to avoid injury, ...
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Study Debunks Minority Financial Aid Myth
September 06, 2011
A new report by financial aid and college planning author, Mark Kantrowitz, challenges the assumption that college grant money flows disproportionately to members of minority groups. Kantrowitz, an ABD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, says his paper presents data concerning the distribution of grants and scholarships by race. It debunks the race myth, which claims that minority students receive more than their fair share of scholarships. ...
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Report: Black Males Unable To Hold On To Middle Class
September 06, 2011
According to a new report by Pew’s Economic Mobility Project, a middle-class upbringing does not guarantee the same status as an adult, The report, Downward Mobility from the Middle Class: Waking Up from the American Dream, considers potential factors that cause a third of Americans who grow up in the middle – defined ...
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Latino Voting Advocates Object To Texas Redistricting
September 02, 2011
Advocates for LULAC that included former Congressman Ciro D. Rodriguez, National LULAC Counsel Luis Roberto Vera, Jr., Maverick County Judge David Saucedo and John Tanner, former Department of Justice Voting Rights Section ...
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