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...people got 50 bucks, a bus ticket and let out the door without any preparation - they land back in their old neighborhoods at four in the morning where there's drugs - so what would we expect in terms of them being successful?" wonders Amy Solomon, a scholar at the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan research organization. (Read about one ex-inmate's struggle to re-enter society...
Brazilian devotion to the Catholic Church has declined over the past several years. Whereas Brazil was once an almost entirely Catholic nation, only 74% of Brazilians today admit allegiance to Rome, with large numbers, especially the urban poor, having defected to Protestant Evangelical sects. Many more water down their Catholicism with dashes of African religions such as Candomble or spiritist beliefs such as Kardecism. Only recently has the decrease in Catholic affiliation seemingly leveled...
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT $47.5 billion, an 18% increase. Calls for more funding for affordable-housing development, rental assistance and community-development block grants...
What keeps me away from those now is the thought of who could win. You know, the urban legends of people picking teams based on uniform colors or mascots or how attractive the coach is AND THEN WINNING! The thought of my money in a game that is supposed to test one’s knowledge of the game going to people who can’t tell the Big Ten from the Freshman 15 or the Elite Eight from ménage a trois is revolting...
...Harvard urban design Professor Alex Krieger says the vacant properties lining Allston’s main streets serve as a reminder of just how long it may take Western Ave. to become the bustling retail thoroughfare that planners have envisioned...