Baltimore has the 10th highest income inequality among the nation’s 50 largest cities, according to a study released Thursday by the Brookings Institution, the Washington-based think tank.
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Read More »February 20, 2014 Comments Off on City’s gap between rich, poor is 10th highest
Baltimore has the 10th highest income inequality among the nation’s 50 largest cities, according to a study released Thursday by the Brookings Institution, the Washington-based think tank.
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Read More »September 17, 2013 Comments Off on Poverty rate remains stuck at 15 percent
WASHINGTON — The nation’s poverty rate stood still at 15 percent last year, the sixth straight year that it has failed to improve. The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that 46.5 million Americans — or more than 1 in 7 — ...
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Read More »May 20, 2013 Comments Off on Report says poor are moving to nation’s suburbs
LOS ANGELES — A new report shows more poor people have moved to the nation’s suburbs, outnumbering those in urban areas. The Brookings Institution study released Monday says those in poverty living in suburbs jumped 67 percent between 2000 and ...
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Read More »March 4, 2012 Comments Off on Joe Surkiewicz: Legal help for Asian-Americans
The myth: Asian-Americans, the fastest-growing immigrant group in the U.S., are uniformly wealthy, well-educated and well-assimilated into American culture. The reality? It’s very different: Nearly three-quarters of Asian-Americans are immigrants, more than a third speak English less than well, one ...
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Read More »January 11, 2012 Comments Off on Conflict between rich, poor strongest in 24 years
WASHINGTON — Tensions between the rich and poor are increasing and at their most intense level in nearly a quarter-century, a new survey shows. Americans now see more social conflict over wealth inequality than over the hot-button topics of immigration, ...
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Read More »December 15, 2011 Comments Off on Census shows 1 in 2 people are poor or low-income
WASHINGTON — Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans — nearly 1 in 2 — have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income. The latest census data depict a ...
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Read More »December 12, 2010 Comments Off on University of Baltimore law students take the food stamp challenge
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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Read More »November 17, 2010 Comments Off on For Salvation Army, less time for ringing bells
The holiday season may become less cheery and charitable outside of some area grocery stores this year. Giant Food has instituted a new policy that will limit to 12 the number of days that the Salvation Army can solicit donations ...
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Read More »October 6, 2010 Comments Off on Farmer donates entire harvest to Salvation Army
CUMBERLAND — Lou Simmons believes that if every farmer were to donate a small portion of each harvest to the poor, no one would go hungry in America. Simmons, who recently turned 84, is doing his part by donating every ...
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Read More »September 29, 2010 Comments Off on Rich-county, poor-county gap widens in Md.
Maryland was one of three states to show increasing inequality in income distribution between 2008 and 2009, although the gap between rich and poor areas stayed the same nationally, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. Howard County had the state’s highest ...
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