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...Sometimes we have a tendency to complicate policy,” he added. “It’s very simple—people want a good education. They want jobs. They want healthcare. They want streets that are clean and infrastructure that’s not rotting away...
...Certainly, other women, other people of color, other members of the LGBT community want to see someone that understands them working for them in the local government,” Simmons said. “At the same time, when someone comes to me and says ‘Councillor Simmons, I need help’...it doesn’t matter to them that I’m a woman, or a person of color, or openly...
...years ago, 192 nations came together in New York City to reaffirm the promise of freedom from want. They established the U.N. Millennium Development Goals and pledged to achieve them by 2015. These eight goals address the root causes of global poverty: tyrants like infectious disease, hunger, and gender inequality. Now, five years from the deadline, none of the goals are on track to be accomplished. These goals, once beacons of hope in the fight on global poverty, are becoming broken promises to people across the world...
...Money is not enough. (It never is.) But for some kids, it may be part of the solution. In the end, we all want our children to grow into self-motivated adults. The question is, How do we help them get there? And is it possible that at least for some kids, the road is paved not with stickers but with $20 bills...
...first semester of college, Fryer took a calculus class. On his initial exam, he scored 45 out of 100. "My friends started calling me Colt 45," he remembers. The failure enraged him, and his pride kicked in. "I didn't want to be like everyone else from my neighborhood," he says...