Tag: poverty
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Head Start preschools aim to fight poverty, but their teachers struggle to make ends meet
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Teachers at Head Start child care centers are paid far less than public school teachers, even though they have similar credentials
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Foreign aid drops sharply as Taliban abuses jeopardize the Afghan health system, group says
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Human Rights Watch says Afghanistan’s public health system has been hit hard following a sharp reduction in foreign assistance, coupled with serious Taliban abuses against women and girls, It says this is jeopardizing the right to healthcare of millions of Afghans
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A litany of death: A list of homeless deaths in El Paso County
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save An SUV struck Dirk Cordtz, a pedestrian, on South Nevada Avenue at East Las Vegas Street in Colorado Springs on Jan. 2, 2018. Cordtz died a day later. The Gazette File 2018: January Dirk Cordtz, 62 Homeless off and on the past couple of years,…
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A litany of death: A list of homeless deaths in El Paso County
–> 2018: January Dirk Cordtz, 62 Homeless off and on the past couple of years, he cut across Nevada Avenue a couple of blocks from the Springs Rescue Mission shelter where he had been staying. An SUV turning left pinned him to the ground. He died Jan. 3 at UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central. A former…