ANNAPOLIS — They line up before the doors open, needing help in areas they never imagined — cash assistance, unemployment, food stamps. In the lobby of the Maryland Legal Aid office, attorneys scramble to find chairs for an overflow of ...

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A $759,000 federal community development grant was given to officials of the city’s Howard Park community Monday to help build a new grocery store there. The grant was made as part of a national Healthy Food Financing Initiative and is ...

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WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is calling for more lending to people and small businesses in lower-income neighborhoods, saying they’ve been hurt disproportionately by the worst recession since the 1930s. Bernanke says at Fed conference on community development ...

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After half a billion dollars of investment, the latest hopes of success for The New East Baltimore project are housed in three humble trailers on what used to be the playground of a now vacant and vandalized city school. There, ...

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Some University of Baltimore law students inadvertently put one foot in the real world last fall when they signed up for the Law and Poverty Seminar. In addition to reading case law related to poverty, they were required to get ...

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