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We think of scholarships as a way to help more students go to college. But there’s a new scholarship program in Michigan that has nothing to do with…
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As a child growing up in 1970's and '80s Grand Rapids, I had the opportunity to try many things: basketball, flute lessons, acting, and sewing, to name a…
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We post about alotofreports on this site. We use a lotofstatistics. Not sure if you noticed. The point is that these statistics all tell a story, and the…
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"There are good days and bad days." That's how 12-year old Tyler Smith describes his life in Iowa, where he says he and his sister often go hungry because…
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Now that the election is over and we know who will be sitting in the Oval Office for the next four years, it seems like a good time to take a look at a…
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We've written about this before, but it bears repeating: There has been very little talk of poverty during the presidential campaign, and yet nearly a…
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There has been very little talk about poverty in this election. Just how little, you ask? So little there was an entire #talkpoverty twitter campaign to…
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Lots of people are talking about how if Congress fails to reach a bipartisan budget agreement by the start of the New Year, $1.2 trillion worth of…
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President Obama and Mitt Romney debated a variety of domestic issues last night, but poverty wasn’t one of them.Other than Romney’s closing remarks in…
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Can digital games help lift children out of poverty? That’s what Wendy Lazarus, Founder and Co-President of The Children’s Partnership thinks.This week…