One of the lasting effects of the Great Recession has been the economic spiral downward of the American middle class, and no group has been harder hit than the boomer generation, men and women in the prime of their working lives.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/booming/set-for-life-documents-crisis-among-baby-boomers.html?src=rechp
ess than three months after the Justice Department sued Meridian, Miss., after finding that school students there were routinely arrested without probable cause, a report by a group of civil rights organizations says that “overly harsh school disciplinary policies” are common throughout the state.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/education/report-criticizes-school-discipline-measures-used-in-mississippi.html?ref=education
CAIRO — Nearly three years ago, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood delivered a speech urging Egyptians to “nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred” for Jews and Zionists. In a television interview around that time, the same leader described Zionists as “these bloodsuckers who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, the descendants of apes
SUNLAND-TUJUNGA – Sometimes while driving around his district, Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcón will spot his son on the street, scrounging for food around a Del Taco restaurant.
Read more in the Daily News: http://www.dailynews.com/ci_22373843/councilman-richard-alarc-243-n-helps-launch-new
The pews at Eddie Goldstein’s funeral were filled with Mexican Americans, reinforcing how flimsy racial and ethnic constructs can be, especially when love is involved.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-becerra-goldstein-20130113,0,2227163.story
Yesenia Rojas has taken it upon herself to be the voice of the working-class Latino immigrants on Anna Drive — ‘the men and women who put in long days at exhausting jobs, and their children.’
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-anna-drive-20130114,0,7387050.story
It was a reign of terror that reeked of rednecks and white hoods.
Tires were slashed, rocks hurled through windows and acid pellets fired at the car of a black family, who finally fled their neighborhood in November after months of attacks and racial taunts.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-banks-hatecrimes-20130112,0,3333202.column
WASHINGTON — The head of the National Rifle Assn. expressed confidence Sunday that the current Congress will not pass a new ban on assault weapons, a major aim of gun-control proponents in the wake of last month’s killing of 20 schoolchildren in Connecticut.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-nra–congress-ban-assault-weapons-20130113,0,7282562.story
The boy, who was 10 when he killed his father, could be sent to juvenile detention or be given probation, sent to live with relatives or undergo intensive counseling.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-neo-nazi-sentencing-20130114,0,4686512.story
Over the next decade, more students of color than ever before will pass through the gates of the nation’s colleges and join the ranks of its work force, according to new projections by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Wave-of-Diverse-College/136603/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en