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poverty

St. Pete Free Clinic

Donation helps St. Petersburg Free Clinic expand food bank

Thousands of families in the Tampa Bay area don’t earn enough to buy the right amount of food, even with some government assistant programs. That’s where community food banks come in — like one in the...

An Angry Woman’s Heart – on From a Woman’s POV

 I am getting steamed – really, really steamed.  If I hear one more comment on “the women’s card…..”  Read Rebecca Solnit’s column, “If Donald Trump Were a Woman and Hillary Clinton Were a Man: Here’s...
Pinellas County Commissioner Ken Welch (right) and Nikki Gaskin-Capehart

Update on South St. Pete’s battle to reduce poverty

One of the most economically depressed areas of the Tampa Bay region, south St. Petersburg, has plans in place to reduce poverty by 30 percent by 2020; Wednesday morning at the Childs Park YMCA, Gypsy...

The lasting impact of the Moynihan Report on race and poverty politics

50 years ago, sociologist and Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan released a report that attempted to explain the roots of black poverty. the Moynihan report, as it came to be known, pointed at...
Kathy Castor at USF

Low-performing Pinellas schools prompts Castor letter to feds

Tampa-area Congress member Kathy Castor has written to the U.S. Department of Education asking them to look at how the Pinellas County School District is spending federal money that is supposed to go to schools...
Rene Flowers

Pinellas School Board member reacts to Times report

This week the Tampa Bay Times began publishing results of an investigation into several low-performing elementary schools called “Why Pinellas County is the worst place in Florida to be black and go to public school.”...

Home health care workers want higher wages and unions

In Tampa yesterday, industry workers spoke up and announced they are looking for union representation to aid them in the fight
WMNF 88.5

Protesters outside Tampa Chamber meeting ask “Prosperity for Whom?”

Protesters outside Tampa Chamber meeting ask "Prosperity for Whom?"
WMNF 88.5

Tampa activist undeterred by Ft. Lauderdale ban on sharing food in public parks

Tampa activist undeterred by Ft. Lauderdale ban on sharing food in public parks

Group wants $15 minimum wage in St. Pete

Group wants $15 minimum wage in St. Pete

Kids in St. Pete can get free breakfast and lunch all summer long

Kids in St. Pete can get free breakfast and lunch all summer long

$15 minimum wage debate hits St. Pete

Minimum wage debate hits St. Pete

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