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iPhone scammers allegedly use homeless to profit in Apple stores
In a scheme designed to prey on the poor and defenseless, scammers working in a Colorado Apple store persuade them to sign up for phones in exchange for cash. The phones are resold. The contracts, however, belong to the disadvantaged.
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Without Tenure or a Home
In the classroom, Mary-Faith Cerasoli, 53, an adjunct professor of Romance languages, usually tries to get her message across in lyrical Italian or Spanish. But on Wednesday, during spring break, she was using stencils and ink and abbreviated English to write her current message — “Homeless Prof.” — on a white ski vest she planned to wear on a solo trip to Albany two days later to protest working conditions for adjunct college professors.
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Why America's Essentials Are Getting More Expensive While Its Toys Are Getting Cheap
In the last ten years, what's gotten more expensive? And what's gotten less expensive? Here's a fascinating snapshot of the last decade in American prices...
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Census: U.S. has fewer ‘near poor’ as many slip into true poverty
Despite a recession and high unemployment rate during the past decade, the percentage of Americans living just above the poverty level has actually decreased since the 1960s — a potential reflection of the surge in the number of people who have slipped below poverty levels since the recession.
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At least 80 dead in Kenya after drinking illegal alcohol
Eighty people have died after drinking from a batch of illegal liquor in Kenya and police have detained several people for questioning, officials and police have reported. Consumption of illicit alcohol is common in Kenya where many cannot afford factory-made beers and spirits. Deaths often occur but this is the largest number of people killed in a single incident for several years.
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Fast-food workers announce global protest, walkouts set for 33 countries
Fast-food workers are planning a global strike for better pay and working conditions, with actions set to take place in 150 U.S. cities and 32 other countries in a bid to exert pressure on multinational companies. Strikes are planned for May 15 across five continents in countries including Morocco, Japan, India, Belgium, Germany, Brazil, Argentina and New Zealand
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One billion people still defecate in public despite health risks-UN
One billion people worldwide still practice "open defecation" and they need to be told that this leads to the spread of fatal diseases, U.N. experts said on Thursday at the launch of a study on drinking water and sanitation. "'Excreta', 'faeces', 'poo', I could even say 'shit' maybe, this is the root cause of so many diseases," said Bruce Gordon, acting coordinator for sanitation and health at the World Health Organization.
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The Manhattan Bridge Is Used By Thousands Every Day... But It Holds A Dark Secret. Look Closer.
Living anywhere in Manhattan means that you’re going to be paying a lot of money in rent. Almost every part of New York City is expensive. If you were to live near the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn, rent would most likely be anywhere between $1,700 and $3,000 a month. For people with low paying or minimum wage jobs, it would be impossible to live in this area.
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Florida Couple Fined $746 For Crime Of Feeding Homeless People
After feeding the hungry in a Daytona Beach park every weekend for more than a year, it’s just as easy to imagine Chico and Debbie Jimenez given a ticker-tape parade as what they actually got: a slew of citations and a permanent ban from the park. Chico and Debbie Jimenez, a husband and wife team, aren’t handing out food in the Florida heat every Wednesday because of a court order or for a paycheck. They do it because they believe helping the poor is their religious duty.
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Saving South Sudan
Sudan was once home to a great civilization that was the most advanced in all of Africa—but centuries of colonialism and conflict, and a post-independence period ravaged by coups, dictatorships, and incompetent rule, mired Sudan in a series of never-ending wars. This timeline details how by 2013, the oil-rich, fertile nation was falling apart.
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America's homeless: The rise of Tent City, USA
Homeless encampments known as "tent cities" are popping up across the country.
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As Court Fees Rise, The Poor Are Paying The Price
In Augusta, Ga., a judge sentenced Tom Barrett to 12 months after he stole a can of beer worth less than $2. In Ionia, Mich., 19-year-old Kyle Dewitt caught a fish out of season; then a judge sentenced him to three days in jail. In Grand Rapids, Mich., Stephen Papa, a homeless Iraq War veteran, spent 22 days in jail, not for what he calls his "embarrassing behavior" after he got drunk with friends and climbed into an abandoned building, but because he had only $25 the day he went to court.
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How the diseased and destitute are forced to carve out a grim existence in the sewers of Eastern Europe
Once dubbed 'The Paris of the East', Romanian capital Bucharest is a city teeming with ornate architecture, Baroque palaces and tree-lined boulevards. But beneath its mansions and squares lies a second city that no tourist gets to see - an underground kingdom of outcasts and drug addicts living in the city's vast network of sewers. Here, everyone is HIV-positive and a quarter have TB, yet they are left to rot in the darkness, huddling against heating pipes and snorting glue to stay warm.
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After Months Of Homelessness, A Teen Leaves The Woods Behind
The Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates that there were more than 30,000 homeless children in rural America last year, but advocates believe the actual number is much higher.
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Leaving Homeless Person On The Streets: $31,065. Giving Them Housing: $10,051.
Even if you don’t think society has a moral obligation to care for the least among us, a new study underscores that we have a financial obligation to do so. Late last week, the Central Florida Commission on Homelessness released a new study showing that, when accounting for a variety of public expenses, Florida residents pay $31,065 per chronically homeless person every year they live on the streets.
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76 percent of people who qualify for housing aid don't get it
Many federal programs in the US are structured as entitlements. For example, if you've worked enough months and paid payroll taxes, you're entitled to Social Security payments and Medicare coverage. If you meet federal eligibility requirements for food stamps (which states are allowed to tweak a bit), you're entitled to payments.
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Venezuela: United in poverty
Venezuelans have been suffering from years of mismanagement and deprivation. The latest figures reveal just how bad things have become: There has been a huge rise in the number of people living in extreme poverty.
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Pope Francis: The World's 'Idolatrous Economies' Only Survive Through War
Pope Francis launched a sweeping attack on the world's economic system in an interview released Friday, saying it discards the young, puts money ahead of people and survives on the profits of war.
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Can Exercise Close the Achievement Gap?
Just 12 minutes of aerobic exercise can boost low-income college students’ academic performance. The effect is large enough to close the achievement gap.
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Inside the Tunnels Las Vegas's Homeless Population Calls Home
In the 1990s, Las Vegas began building storm-drainage tunnels to protect the tourist destination from raging flash floods. The plan was to construct 1,000 miles of tunnels within 20 or 25 years. Today, the tunnels house the city’s homeless population.
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