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Citing global security, President Obama announces initiatives to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Is it too little, too late? ATLANTA – President Barack Obama on Tuesday came to Atlanta to announce that he is sending thousands of U.S. troops and health personnel to fight the Ebola epidemic sweeping West Africa, painting the crisis as a threat to global security. “Right now the world has the ability to save countless lives,” Obama told reporters at a briefing at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The world has a responsibility to act.” He said that if the outbreak is not stopped now, the toll could mount to the hundreds of thousands, with profound impacts on nations’ economies and stability that could reverberate to

U.S. shores.

Largest response Obama called the plan the largest international response in the history of the CDC. In addition to health workers, the plan calls for a military command center in Liberia to support civilian work across the region, a staging area in Senegal, and a plan to build treatment units and facilities to train hundreds or thousands of local health workers. It also is to involve an estimated 3,000 U.S. troops. Administration statements emphasized the U.S. military’s expertise in logistics, clearing the decks to move supplies and medical per-

sonnel to the right places faster. They made no mention of involvement in activities such as enforcing quarantines. Dr. Bruce Ribner, who led the Emory University Hospital team that successfully treated Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol and recently took in a third Ebola patient as well, said the medical staff’s meeting with Obama was encouraging. “I think he has a good handle on what the issues are in both the United States and the Third World,” Ribner said. “I’m very optimistic that we’re starting to get a global response that’s going to get control of this outHYOSUB SHIN/ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION / MCT break.” On Tuesday, President Obama delivered remarks at the Centers for See OBAMA, Page A2 Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

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Suicide in middle school Mother cites ‘overwhelming hopelessness’ BY TIFFANY WALDEN ORLANDO SENTINEL / MCT

ORLANDO – Shaniqua Hawkins’ voice trembled as she spoke publicly for the first time about the death of her son, Lamar Hawkins III. At times, she even rocked back and forth, taking long pauses in between sentences – an attempt to fight back tears. Surrounded by her husband, Lamar Hawkins Sr., Lamar extended family Hawkins, Jr. and Orlando attorney Matt Morgan, she told reporters at an emotional news conference Monday that bullies pushed her son over the edge. “The hopelessness was overwhelming,” Hawkins said about her son, whose nickname was Shaq. “Our hearts are broken, and our lives are forever changed. Shaq is gone.”

Bullying takes toll UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI ROSENSTIEL SCHOOL OF MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE/MCT

In the remotest part of the Florida Keys, scientists are on a research mission to learn more about grouper, snapper and other reef fish that congregate at specific places at certain times to mate.

Black poverty still high as general rate declines FROM WIRE REPORTS

WASHINGTON – An improved economy with more full-time workers drove a decline in the national poverty rate in 2013 – the first in seven years – and the first decline in the nation’s child poverty rate in 13 years, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released Tuesday. The poverty rate also declined for the first time since 2006, from 15 percent in 2012 to 14.5 percent last year. But the poverty rate remains stubbornly high. It was 12.5 percent in 2007, the year before the economy tanked.

Highest of all Blacks had the nation’s highest poverty rate at 27.2 percent in 2013, followed by 10.5 percent

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for Asians and 9.6 percent for non-Hispanic whites. Hispanics were the only group to see a significant decline in their poverty rate, falling from 25.6 percent in 2012 to 23.5 percent in 2013. The nation’s median household income – the amount at which half the nation earns more and the other half earns less – was $51,939 in 2013, virtually unchanged from $51,759 in 2012.

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SNAPSHOTS NATION | A3

Will Ferguson energize Black youth voter turnout?

HEALTH | B3

Shortage of in-home dialysis solution worries patients

No change It marked the third straight year that stagnant earnings showed no statistically significant change. And full-time working women, on average, earned only 78 cents for every $1 a man earned in 2013 – up just 1 cent

The student at Greenwood Lakes Middle School in Lake Mary, killed himself in the school’s bathroom last week. His mother said they were aware of Lamar’s issues with bul-

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An emotional Lydia Omogun recalls the pain of losing her house, car and hair. Omogun, 54, says she is a victim of wage theft after not being paid for her home care services.

75 years ago this month — football on TV was launched

COMMENTARY: CHARLES W. CHERRY II: RANDOM THOUGHTS OF A FREE BLACK MIND | A4 COMMENTARY: BILL FLETCHER, JR.: PRESSURE MOUNTS TO DROP NAME OF D.C. FOOTBALL TEAM | A5


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