Word: csc
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...couples who have taken the 12-week Pennsylvania course since it was launched in July 2003 would probably line up on the side of getting all the help they can get. The classes are run by Community Services for Children (CSC), a nonprofit organization that oversees Head Start programs in Allentown, Pa. On Monday nights, couples convene at a Boys & Girls Club, dropping off their children with caregivers provided by the program. The moms and dads share canned soda and free dinners such as chicken, potatoes and gravy before the two instructors--Gregory Edwards, author of the program's curriculum...
...enter the course, couples must be unmarried with a child under age 1. Faverey recruits them by calling parents in CSC's Head Start programs. The group is mainly African Americans and Hispanics in their 20s and 30s, populations in which single-parent households are prevalent. While white families have an 81% chance of including a married couple, Hispanics have a 67% chance and African Americans a 46% chance. For low-income couples like the ones in the class, trading vows is often a lower priority than managing day-to-day dramas like finding housing, treating a health condition...
...have gone on, the Holocaust has become a vessel for all sorts of more complex moral inquiries. "In the generation that immediately followed the war, the story was told in a rather less nuanced manner. There was black and white, good and evil," says Barry Edelstein, artistic director of CSC (which, along with the Klemperer play, also just staged Ferdinand Bruckner's "Race," an anti-Nazi work produced in Germany in 1933). "As understanding of the period has become more and more sophisticated, stories that seemed marginal, not to fit in the main narrative of the Holocaust, have started...