Housing vouchers were created in the 1970s to help poor families and their children escape public housing, but they largely failed to improve the prospects for their recipients. Many of the 2.2 million households that are receiving them at any given moment, particularly minorities, remain clustered in low-income neighborhoods in what amount to virtual housing projects.
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German columnist’s supposition is false yet reaches right conclusion
“Neither the eurozone nor Europe is best served by holding on to Greece. “
Colorado’s Effort Against Teenage Pregnancies Is a Startling Success
The birthrate among teenagers across the state plunged by 40 percent from 2009 to 2013, while their rate of abortions fell by 42 percent, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. There was a similar decline in births for another group particularly vulnerable to unplanned pregnancies: unmarried women under 25 who have not finished high school…
Pawlowski halts Senate bid, Democrats seek options
The news came after agents raided the office Thursday, seized documents, and interviewed Pawlowski and city Managing Director Francis Dougherty, according to a source close to the investigation
Will CRIZ ruin downtown Lancaster investors as NIZ is doing to Allentown?
“These incentives can be good for downtown Allentown, but not at the expense of the existing buildings that are in jeopardy of losing existing tenants to these new developments and cannot compete on a level playing field to fill up existing buildings, leaving vacant buildings that could not and should not be the result of the creation of the NIZ.”
Let’s Talk About Your Sex
Dr. [Margie] Nichols says kinky couples have the best sex of any long-term couples she sees. Because of this, she finds herself “selling” their principles to vanilla (nonkinky) heterosexuals.…
A Report on local volunteers’ relief effort in Southern Hungary
A few citizen (activists) have been alarmed, they ran to the station and did not let the guards push the migrants out of the building. When the guards told them they would call the police, the activists replied: “Do it!”. The police came and after a lengthy discussion the station stayed open.
Then in a very few days a lot of things happened.
Budapest Beacon: “Europe and Hungary are experiencing a refugee crisis”
The fence will cost HUF 22 billion (USD 80 million) while last’s year’s budget for the whole of the immigration administration system was HUF 2.4 billion (USD 8.7 million). If one tenth of the fence’s construction price were spent on the system, it would not collapse under the pressure.
Homeless man will take your breath away playing piano in the streets
A homeless man with a scruffy beard and long scraggly hair looks like a lost soul. But he has magic fingers on the piano and his talent is breathtaking.
LETTER: “Naïve and timid White House policy on the Middle East”
Re: Richard Holbrooke’s decline and fall, as told in Hillary Clinton Nothing in it surprises me very much. Much as I like Obama otherwise, I never thought that his foreign policy and the White House foreign policy team accomplished much for the United States. A major reason for the emergence of the Islamic State and […]
KEISLING: Inaction and doubletalk give way to early protests at state capitol
Having filled the capitol rotunda steps with placard-bearing protestors, the angry group then took off down the hall to the General Assembly wing. Protestors lined the hallway outside of GOP speaker Mike Turzai’s office. For more than an hour they filled the hallway and shouted for the Republicans to “Tax shale and fund our schools.”
Nicholas Winton, Rescuer of 669 Children From Holocaust, Dies at 106
But there was no comparable mass-rescue effort in Czechoslovakia. Mr. Winton created one. It involved dangers, bribes, forgery, secret contacts with the Gestapo, nine railroad trains, an avalanche of paperwork and a lot of money. Nazi agents started following him. In his Prague hotel room, he met terrified parents desperate to get their children to safety, although it meant surrendering them to strangers in a foreign land…
Two pieces of good news for Lancaster County residents
We also tip our hat to the Steinman Family and LNP who have always taken a progressive approach to harm reduction efforts pertaining to drug policy.
TSUKERMAN: Is Putin loved by Russians?
All were willing to endure hardship: to eat just potatoes for the whole year, not to go abroad for their vacations, only if their deprivations were not in vein. But only if the result of these depravations, Europe and the United States will wash in blood and crawl on their knees to beg forgiveness, as Putin promised.