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...poor African American neighborhood in Charleston brought out strong emotions in Kerry volunteer Jonathan D. Einkauf ’06. Einkauf, who said his family “just scraped by” at one point in their lives, said he was frustrated that other campaigns were ignoring poorer communities...
This artificial environment is most pervasive in the U.S. and other industrialized countries, and that's exactly where the fat crisis is most acute. When people move to the U.S. from poorer nations, their collective weight begins to rise. As developing areas like, for example, Southeast Asia and Latin America catch up economically and the inhabitants adopt Western lifestyles, their problems with obesity catch up as well. By contrast, among people who still live in conditions most like those of our distant Stone Age ancestors--such as the Maku or the Yanomami of Brazil--there is virtually no obesity...
Behind his candidacy, Dahroug says, is his desire to reform school financing and improve the quality and consistency of public education in his district—without reallocating funds directly from wealthier to poorer districts...
...unique part of the decision is that it doesn’t call for a standard of equity, it calls for a standard of adequacy,” said Dahroug, who opposes what he calls “Robin Hood plans” to transfer funds from wealthier to poorer districts...
Dahroug and Trunzo both hail from Brentwood, home to what Dahroug says is an underfunded school district that lies between richer and poorer districts. Due to low property taxes and a cap on state aid proportional to the size of the graduating class, he says the school district suffers from inconsistent program quality...