Cities Advance Their Fight Against Rising Inequality
SEATTLE — In January, Teresa Fuentes’s employer told her she could work no more than 30 hours a
SEATTLE — In January, Teresa Fuentes’s employer told her she could work no more than 30 hours a
With the Obama administration deporting illegal immigrants at a record pace, the president has said the government is going after “criminals, gang bangers, people who are hurting the community, not after students, not after folks who are here just because they’re trying to figure out how to feed their families.”
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The backlash by Chinese-American activists against a measure aimed at restoring affirmative action in the admissions process at California’s public universities has set off political fisticuffs between ethnic groups accustomed to battling side-by-side.
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The United States Department of Education is investigating whether Florida State properly responded to a student’s allegation that she had been sexually assaulted by the university’s star quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner, Jameis Winston.
The New York Times
Joseph Ponte, New York’s newly appointed correction commissioner, and his wife were visiting the city two weeks ago, and while she went apartment hunting, he had a few hours free. So he dropped by Rikers Island to have a look at the jail block where a
BOULDER, Colo. ― A visiting conservative scholar at the University of
The number of reported anti-Semitic incidents in the nation declined by 19 percent from 2012 to 2013, while California experienced a drop of 23 percent in that same period, according to data released Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League. Still, there was an uptick in the
When the U.S. Education and Justice Departments last year found that a California school district violated Title IX
INDIANAPOLIS — New college students with disabilities are often insecure. Navigating a complicated bureaucracy for the first time with far less institutional support than they had in high school, these students often must overcome stigma and ignorance surrounding their disabilities and advocate for themselves, which they’re often not used to doing. The alternative: risk not