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Staying connected to plugged-in teens
I wonder what grounding looked like in the 1920s. What items or privileges were restricted? "Young man, hand over the stick. There will be no stick ball and no fishing." And what did kids get grounded for? Were they lighting matches or dressing like...Tags: Woodrow Wilson, Networking, Arts and Culture, Culture, Apple iPad
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Census data points to fragile recovery in economy
More young adults are leaving their parents’ homes to take a chance with college or a job. Across the nation, people are on the move again after putting their lives on hold and staying put. Once-sharp declines in births are leveling off, and poverty...
Tags: Population and Census, Colleges and Universities, Employment Opportunities, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Connecticut Labor Markets
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More poor in U.S. suburbs than cities, report says
Once considered the definition of the middle-class American dream, the suburbs are now home to a larger, faster-growing poor population than urban areas, according to a new analysis. During the 2000s, the number of poor living in U.S. suburbs grew by 64...
Tags: New York City, Environmental Issues, Conservation, Poverty, Authors
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More poverty in Baltimore's suburbs than in Baltimore
More people live in poverty in Baltimore's suburbs than in the city itself, part of a nationwide shift that is challenging the largely urban assistance network built up over decades. Suburban poverty in the Baltimore area grew 58 percent between 2000 and...
Tags: Conservation, Government, Rentals, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Dundalk
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Report: Suburban Poverty Rises Sharply But CT Regions More Stable
The Hartford CourantMetro Hartford's suburbs have among the lowest poverty rates of the largest 100 U.S. urban areas and is in the middle of the pack in growth of suburban poverty, a new report shows. But the region, which includes Hartford, Middlesex and Tolland counties,...Tags: New Britain, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Stamford, Tolland (Tolland, Connecticut), Sociology
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More poor live in suburbs than urban areas, research shows
Bucking longstanding patterns in the United States, more poor people now live in the nation's suburbs than in urban areas, according to a new analysis. As poverty mounted throughout the nation over the past decade, the number of poor people living in...
Tags: Conservation, South Holland, Colleges and Universities, Social Services, Park Forest
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US, Turkey project united front on Syria, keeping differences behind closed doors
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan projected a united front Thursday on Syria, keeping stark differences about how much the U.S. should intervene behind closed doors as they looked to Russia...Tags: Government Ministers, Barack Obama, Bashar Assad, White House, Wars and Interventions
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Major Warner Center office park sold to tenant for $80 million
A vast office park in Warner Center — the white-collar business hub of the San Fernando Valley — has sold for an estimated $80 million to investors who see it as central to an evolving and increasingly dense commercial and residential...
Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Property, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Allstate Corp., Automotive Equipment
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Letters: College? Yes!
Re "College not always cost-effective," Business, May 9 In reporting on the Brookings Institution study, "Should Everyone go to College?," The Times highlights the statistic that "a surprising 14%" of high school graduates earn more than college...Tags: Schools, High Schools, Colleges and Universities, Education, Science and Technology
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'Job Sprawl' Leaves The Cities Behind
When Hartford's suburbs began to flourish in the years after World War II, it was often courtesy of businesses that had been in Hartford. That is typical of most metropolitan regions across the country. For decades, companies have been moving from city to...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), West Hartford, East Hartford, Business
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Suspicions fire racial tensions
Gina Blandin has a theory about what caused the flooding disaster that befell New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck last August, an idea that has little to do with engineering studies or physical evidence and everything to do with the poisonous...Tags: Houston Chronicle, Disasters and Accidents, Engineering, C. Ray Nagin, The Wall Street Journal
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Even as economy recovers, long-term jobless struggle
After a recession, here is the way things are supposed to work. As growth returns, employers gain some confidence and add jobs. As job openings rise, the number of people unemployed begins to fall. And, on balance, that's happening — both in...
Tags: Federal Reserve, Seminole County, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Unemployment, Labor Markets
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