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Spare 'Abnormal' Gays Says Uganda's PM

Spare 'Abnormal' Gays Says Uganda's PM  - An asylum seeker from Uganda covers his face with a paper bag in order to protect his identity as he marches with the LGBT Asylum Support Task  ...

Obamacare Enrollment for LGBTs

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Obamacare Enrollment for LGBTs  - Hoping to utilize the implementation of the Affordable Care Act to close the "health care gap," the National LGBT Health Education Center at The  ...

Vatican: Pope Doesn't Support Gay Civil Unions

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Vatican: Pope Doesn't Support Gay Civil Unions  - Though Pope Francis made some groundbreaking remarks regarding the LGBT community last summer, Vatican officials said Sunday that the pontiff  ...

SDGLN Poll: Readers expect more victories in 2014 for LGBT rights

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SDGLN Poll: Readers expect more victories in 2014 for LGBT rights  - Readers of San Diego Gay & Lesbian News who took our poll overwhelmingly say they expect LGBT rights in the U.S. will continue to  ...

DC is the gayest city in America: LGBT magazine

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DC is the gayest city in America: LGBT magazine  - Aaron Schock are subtly demonstrating their LGBT friendliness by indulging in well-known gay customs: Ryan lifts weights and exaggerates his stats  ...

London counselling centre reports almost a 400% increase in LGBT ...

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London counselling centre reports almost a 400% increase in LGBT ...  - TCCR Chief Executive Officer, Susanna Abse, said they have noticed a marked increase in demand from the LGBT community, especially following  ...

6 Latin American economic issues affect the world's 2014 outlook

6 Latin American economic issues affect the world's 2014 outlook  - Deceleration in Latin America economic growth lowered 2013 expectations although some individual countries performed better than expected.

The Africa-America Institute Unveils Speaker Series

The Africa- America Institute Unveils Speaker Series  - The Africa- America Institute (AAI), a New York based international education and policy organization dedicated to advancing higher education and  ...

Get Ready to Talk About Early Childhood Education

Get Ready to Talk About Early Childhood Education  - Thursday night, in a speech to the annual conference of the American ... that an early childhood education initiative may show up in this year's State of  ...

Canadian students are less confident than Americans, and that's good

Canadian students are less confident than Americans , and that's good  - For Canadian journalists on education , the United States is a gift for all seasons. Student advocates point to astronomical debt levels among American   ...

Report gives local Teach for America educators high marks in math

Report gives local Teach for America educators high marks in math  - A study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education found that Teach for America teachers — recent college graduates or professionals who  ...

The True Legacy of the War on Poverty

The True Legacy of the War on Poverty  - "Each day in America 2,723 babies are born into poverty ." Just as we have learned that solving poverty is complex, through our No Kid Hungry  ...

What's a Slum? Urban Poverty and Marginality in America

What's a Slum? Urban Poverty and Marginality in America  - On my block, 118th Street, there was both normal poverty and extreme poverty . But the latter was not readily detectable. For years there was an  ...

Poverty vs. Democracy in America

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Poverty vs. Democracy in America  - 50 years after Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty , tens of millions of second-class Americans are still legally or effectively disenfranchised.

Rich V Not-Rich: The Real American Battle

Rich V Not-Rich: The Real American Battle  - The gist.... Poverty in America results increasingly from the choices that people make, not our economic system's supposed shortcomings. June, 2013.

50 Years Into the War on Poverty, the Rate Has Barely Changed ...

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50 Years Into the War on Poverty , the Rate Has Barely Changed ...  - The poverty rate among all full-time workers is even lower, at 2.9 ... works and the other doesn't (another 36 million Americans ) the poverty rate is just  ...

Minimum Wage Increase In Various State Could Get Millions Out Of ...

Minimum Wage Increase In Various State Could Get Millions Out Of ...  - "We're talking about roughly 5 million less people in poverty in America ." While some think-tanks believe that the salary increase would do good to the  ...

An Uneasy Truce: The War on Poverty

An Uneasy Truce: The War on Poverty  - While showing the limits of government intervention to create economic opportunity, the War on Poverty also changed rural America for the better, says  ...

Public Anger Grows as US Unemployment, Poverty Increases

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Public Anger Grows as US Unemployment, Poverty Increases  - In America today, there are close to 50 million people living in poverty and ... As the middle class disintegrates, poverty is climbing to unprecedented  ...

Maine Voices: America can still win the 50-year-old war against ...

Maine Voices: America can still win the 50-year-old war against ...  - 8 marks the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty , LBJ's attempt to secure not only equal opportunity but also economic security for all Americans .

Rich Lowry: Cannot blame the rich for poverty

Rich Lowry: Cannot blame the rich for poverty  - Yet for all his impassioned egalitarianism, the new mayor neglected the great equalizers, those qualities that are the bedrock of success in America   ...

Biographies mark jazz giants' crossroads

Biographies mark jazz giants' crossroads  - Black, Brown and Beige, a 45-minute opus describing the Afro - American experience, received decidedly mixed reviews. Later, he was rightly bitter  ...

Cuba to mark 55th revolution anniversary

Cuba to mark 55th revolution anniversary  - As Human Rights Watch noted in April, no other country in Latin America is ruled by a regime that “represses virtually all forms of political dissent.”.

'US seeks to rule Latin American states'

'US seeks to rule Latin American states'  - The United States is engaged in covert military actions in Latin American countries , including Colombia, in order to control their economic operations,  ...

Dia de Reyes, a celebration bigger than Christmas for many

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Dia de Reyes, a celebration bigger than Christmas for many  -  People wait to get their slices of a greater than a mile-long "Rosca de ... Many Latino communities in the southwestern states mark Dia de los Reyes  ...