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Joe Morrissey “...if you want a new ballpark, don’t vote for me ‘cause it’s not gonna happen.”

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Willer speculates that one thing connecting these two political earthquakes might be white voters’ unconscious racial biases. In a series of psychological experiments between 2011 and 2015, he showed how hostility toward people with darker skin and perceived racial threats can influence white support for the tea party. He and his colleagues published a draft of a paper on their findings online recently — some of the most direct evidence of the importance of race to the conservative resurgence during Obama’s presidency.

First, the researchers randomly sorted subjects into two groups and showed them a series of pictures of

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“That left a lot of analysts slackjawed, wondering: What was this latent force that drove the emergence of this movement?” said Robb Willer, a sociologist at Stanford University.

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celebrities, including digitally altered images of the commander in chief.

One group saw a version in which Obama’s skin had been lightened, while in the other version, his skin had been darkened.

Then the researchers asked the subjects in each group whether they supported the tea party. The share that did was a small minority in both groups. Among the 255 white subjects, though, those in the group that had seen the darkened portrait were almost twice as likely to say they supported the movement.

Among the 101 participants of other races or ethnicities, by contrast, those who saw the lightened image of Obama were twice as likely to support the tea party as those who saw the darkened image.

Because they had fewer subjects of color, Willer and his colleagues couldn’t rule out the possibility that this difference between the randomly assorted groups was due to chance.

The result suggests that some white Americans are more likely to oppose Obama solely because of the shade of his skin. For them, the reality that someone with a dark complexion occupies the nation's highest office could be a source of unease.

Past polls and experiments have also suggested that the president's race has motivated opposition to his policies.

For example, psychologist David Sears and political scientist Michael Tesler found that many white voters were willing to support white liberal politicians such as President Clinton and Secretary of State John Kerry when they were candidates for president, but voted against Obama.

Since Clinton, Kerry and Obama all espoused a similar ideology, the pair surmised that Obama must have been less popular because he is black.

Conservative politicians also seemed to respond to racial animosity toward the president.

A study last year found that — intentionally or not — some negative advertisements aired against Obama in 2008 showed him with darker skin.

Willer, though, was able to demonstrate the connection between Obama’s skin color and conservative opposition experimentally. The researchers also conducted a few more studies to see whether tea party support might be motivated

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‘Fighting’ Morrissey on plans to govern as RVA mayor Joe Morrissey has held many titles as a public figure. In November, he plans to add mayor to the list.

The lawyer and former delegate entered the city of Richmond’s mayoral race with extreme confidence that he will be the city’s next leader—a position he plans to fill on a full-time basis.

Morrissey recently sat down with The LEGACY to discuss his plans for the city if elected to serve as mayor. He spoke passionately about the public school system, restorative justice, procurement, transportation and his family.

Not shying away from his boxing glove image, Morrissey embraces that he is indeed a fighter.

“I am a fighter for the people and that will never change,” he said.

City youth will be a primary focus.

Similar to his opponents, Morrissey’s main emphasis will be on school reform. His vision, however, has a little more “meat and potatoes” to it, he said. He plans to invest $50 million over the next two years into Richmond Public Schools through renovation and new construction.

He has been touring the city with centered concentration on the public schools and on creating plans of improvement. At the top of the list would be saving Armstrong High School from closure.

Morrissey’s viewpoint is that the need of a new track, new roof and new cooling system shouldn’t be the determining factor in closing a school. The remedy he suggests is fixing the problem—especially when money magically becomes available for everything else.

“I find it disgraceful that folks can say we don’t have money to repair Armstrong,” he said. “It bothers me to my core that we don’t have $3 million for Armstrong, but there was $12 million for that bike race.

We can pay the Redskins $400,000 to practice here, but there’s no money for Armstrong. That’s not going to happen under a Morrissey administration.”

He also asserts that schools, such as Carver Elementary, that agonize over falling ceilings and other schools exposed to mold, mildew, leaking roofs and damaged HVAC system, would not have to continue suffering from such destitute conditions.

Morrissey sports several signed boxing gloves in his law office.

“I know I don’t want my children going to schools where HVAC systems are falling apart and there is mold and mildew. I’m not going to let that happen to any child in any zip code,” he said. “We have to prioritize where we are going to spend the money.”

Morrissey says renovations and new construction are at the forefront of his school reform plan and expects the projects to be $100 million-plus over the next four years.

“I got K-12 running through my system,” said Morrissey who shared that he once taught high school and was a wrestling coach. “I’m going to fix the schools. I’m not going to let up until I get it done. So, if you want a new ballpark don’t vote for me cause it’s not gonna happen. We are going to put $50 million in the first two years into schools.”

Transportation is also on his list of things-to-do. His desire is to connect Chamberlayne Avenue and Jefferson Davis Highway to Broad Street so residents can have access to GRTC’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system known as the Pulse. He says there needs to be an artery connecting Chamberlayne and Jefferson Davis to Broad Street so residents along and around those streets can access the Pulse.

“We are going to focus on core

services. I’m going to run the city like it’s a business,” Morrissey said.

That entails fixing potholes throughout the city that seems to enlarge instead of being repaired, cleaning allies, fixing cracked sidewalks, picking up leaves and snow removal—all services that Morrissey contends aren’t consistently performed.

While Morrissey knows first hand how to put a budget together, implement it and maintain it, he has plans to hire people from the state that hold the same knowledge in order to get the city’s annual financial review report done on time and “not 12 months late.” He further asserts that the hiring process will not consist of hiring people he knows.

“Nepotism and cronyism will become extinct words in my administration,” he said, “and you will be hired on your skill set. I don’t owe anybody anything and you won’t get the job unless you’re qualified.”

Morrissey will also center in on procurement. He admits that contracts are not allocated fairly to small and minority-owned businesses and will work to change that.

“What black businesses get are crumbs,” he said. “Many people will tell you ‘Joe not only talks the talk but walks the walk’ when it comes to making sure black businesses get their fair share. I flat out guarantee that minority businesses in the city of Richmond are going to do well under a Morrissey administration. I want them to get those city dollars and they will get them.”

Calling it “Home Cookin’” Morrissey plans to put a requirement in place as mayor. Under Home Cookin’ contractors would be required to place a designated percentage with minority businesses or face financial penalty. This is similar to previous failed legislation he introduced while serving in the Virginia House of Representatives. As mayor, he will have the ability to fully govern and says this is something that will come to pass.

Another hot topic in the city and across the state that Morrissey touched on is the restoration of voting rights. Morrissey was instrumental in ‘banning the box’ while in the General Assembly and still fights that fight this very day

offering free help to those needing their rights restored.

“Let’s be clear, room 413 in the General Assembly building, my office for eight years, was ground zero for people coming from all over central Virginia; folks who wanted to get their rights restored,” Morrissey explained fervently. “We helped them fill out the paperwork, helped them with the process, walked them down to the Secretary of Commonwealth’s office. It’s a service that is so important to me. People get their dignity back. People get their civil rights restored. They get a sense of accomplishment and purpose and it started in room 413 of the General Assembly. It’s good more people are involved now. I’m happy about that. Anybody laying claim to that…good. But know that I was the one leading the charge.”

His candidness is what may attract voters to Morrissey in his quest to be Richmond’s next mayor. He admits that he is frightening to many, but loved just the same. “I’m not somebody anyone can control,” he points out, “and because of that I have the people’s support.”

He questions if it’s the same with his opponents.

He’s not in the friend-making business, he said. He’s not in the playing politics business. He’s in the business of winning and plans to win big as mayor and not as a politician.

“I want to govern. I’m not interested in making friends,” he said. “I’m interested in fixing this city and raising our bond rating.

“I’m not going to talk about what I’m going to do. I’m just going to do it. I will remain a fighter for the people that will not play politics,” he said. “Most politicians lack guts and are not fighters. They don’t take principled stands. I am a winner and what they don’t know is that I don’t quit. I don’t give up.”

He plans to take his projected mayoral victory with his soon-to-be wife, Myrna, and their children right by his side and could “care less what the haters say.”

“They think they got me down 17 months ago but failed. What bothers the haters is that I keep getting back up,” Morrissey said referring to the controversy surrounding his and Myrna’s relationship.

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Report: Discipline falls harder on black students than white in Virginia CNS - Black students were at least three times as likely as white students to be suspended or expelled from school, according to an analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights.

Nationwide, for example, 15 percent of African-American students received out-of-school suspensions – compared with 4 percent of white students.

The analysis focused on the 201112 academic year, the most recent data available from the department’s Office for Civil Rights.

In several states, the disparities were especially wide: Wisconsin suspended 26 percent of its black students but just 3 percent of its white students. In Minnesota, Connecticut, Iowa and Nebraska, African-Americans were six times as likely as whites to be suspended from school.

Virginia’s statistics were similar to the national numbers: 14 percent of the commonwealth’s black students received suspensions, vs. 5 percent of white students.

Expulsions are far less common than suspensions, but the pattern was the same. Nationwide, fewer than two of every 1,000 white students were expelled from school in 2011-12 – compared with five of every 1,000 African-American students.

Again, some states had much bigger disparities. Minnesota, for instance, expelled 11 of every 1,000 black students but only about one of every 1,000 white students. Tennessee expelled 24 of every 1,000 black students but just three of every 1,000 white students. Oklahoma expelled 40 of every 1,000 black students but only six of every 1,000 white students.

In Virginia, about two of every 1,000 African-American students were expelled, vs. one of every 1,000 white students.

Other journalists also have looked at the U.S. Education Department’s Civil Rights Data Collection. The Center for Public Integrity, for example, focused on the number of students who were arrested at school

or referred to police.

The center found that Virginia had the highest rate in the United States for calling police on students: Of every 1,000 students in the commonwealth, almost 16 were arrested or referred to law enforcement in 2011-12, the center reported. Nationwide, the figure was about six of every 1,000 students.

Virginia’s tendency to call the cops on kids has raised alarms with Gov. Terry McAuliffe. In October, at an NAACP conference in Richmond, McAuliffe announced an initiative called “Classrooms not Courtrooms.”

He said state officials would work with local school systems to reduce student suspensions, expulsions and referrals to law enforcement.

As part of the initiative, the Virginia Department of Education also is seeking to address “the disparate impact these practices have on African-Americans and students with disabilities.” The goal is to disrupt what some educators call the “school-to-prison pipeline” that tags certain students as troublemakers and channels them into the criminal justice system.

During its 2016 session, the General Assembly also considered the issue. Sen. Don McEachin, D-Richmond, sponsored a measure – Senate Bill 458 – to require the Virginia Board of Education to “establish guidelines for alternatives to short-term and long-term suspension for consideration by local school boards. Such alternatives may include positive behavior incentives, mediation, peer-to-peer counseling, community service, and other intervention alternatives.”

The legislation passed the Senate on a 31-9 vote. However, it was defeated in the House, 43-55.

The data show racial disparities for when police get involved with students. In Virginia, for instance, about 25 of every 1,000 AfricanAmerican students were arrested or referred to police; that compared with 13 of every 1,000 white students.

School districts in Virginia varied considerably in the data on how

The phrase “kids will be kids” pardons some misbehavior; however, certain kids seem to get called to the principal’s office a lot more often than others.

they discipline students. Greensville County Public Schools, for example, suspended more than half of its students in 2011-12. The Greenville school system suspended 64 percent of its black students, 25 percent of its Hispanic students and 30 percent of its white students.

In contrast, the Prince George County Public Schools did not suspend any students, the data showed.

Some school divisions had large racial disparities regarding suspensions. In Arlington County, for instance, 7 percent of the black students were suspended – but just 1 percent of the white students.

And in Bland County, 50 percent of the African-American students got suspensions vs. 8 percent of the white students.

Disparities also were evident in expulsions. In Roanoke, 13 of every 1,000 African-American students were expelled, vs. 1.3 of every 1,000 white students. And in Fairfax County, 5.5 of every 1,000 black students were expelled, compared with 1.3 of every 1,000 white students.

Many advocates of school reforms, as well as parents, have expressed concerns about such patterns.

Daniel Losen, director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies, conducts research on this topic. In the publication “Discipline Policies, Successful Schools, and Racial Justice,” he reported that in 2006, more than 3 million students were suspended at least once – about 7 percent of all students enrolled in primary and secondary public schools.

Losen recommended that

school districts with high rates of suspensions and expulsions should receive assistance on how to manage students’ classroom behavior.

Evandra Catherine, 32, has a son with a disability enrolled in the Richmond Public Schools. She said she is concerned that her child could be the target of harsh disciplinary practices.

“I am aware of my son’s school district’s financial plight when it comes to managing normal students,” Catherine said. “So I have to be extra vigilant of his treatment because of the lack of resources in play which may recommend discipline instead of accommodating him.”

One possible solution is to apply school discipline on a case-by-case basis. That is what Dr. Russell Houck, executive director of student services for Culpeper County Public Schools, advocates. He believes mild and moderate violations should receive mild and moderate levels of punishment.

“We work really hard to give students help, not punishment,” Houck said. “For kids who have a chronic history of disruption, we have a students’ assistance program where they can receive counseling and stay in school.”

Houck said this framework allows students to stay in school and prevents them from falling behind in class.

“It’s all about finding a different way to discipline them, because discipline in my world means to teach. So we need to find new ways to teach them coping skills in order to get to the root of the problem, both behaviorally and instructionally.”

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Gov. moves to make high school more relevant STAFF & WIRE

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed legislation last week that will change the state’s graduation requirements to make them more relevant to the working world. The changes will begin with students entering high school in the fall of 2018. McAuliffe’s move will get more career and technical teachers into schools.

Traditionally, students, especially those at the very top academically, planning to attend a four-year college or university have been well-served

by Virginia’s public schools. But vocational education — what was once derisively called “shop class” — for quite some time has taken a backseat.

No longer.

Speaking at a business roundtable earlier this month in Roanoke, McAuliffe said the aim of the high school reforms is nothing short of a vocational revolution, tearing up the current model of vocational education and starting over from scratch.

Perhaps the fundamental principle of the reforms the state is embarking on implementing is this simple fact: Not every student wants to — or should — go to a college or university after graduating high school; the academic path is not the only path to success in life or in a career.

There are students who are as gifted vocationally as others are gifted academically, but the traditional high school model hasn’t served them well. That’s what McAuliffe wants to end.

For the past two decades, at least, state and federal politicians have demanded accountability and yardstick-measurements of success from the public schools, with standardized tests being the easiest method to implement. The number of tests all students must take grew exponentially as the federal government ratcheted up the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, and Richmond added one SOL test after another to the mix.

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who had been telling them for years the testing load was too great and was getting in the way of teaching and learning.

At the federal level, No Child has been substantially rewritten to lessen the testing burden; at the state level, McAuliffe and his predecessors have pulled back on the number of SOL tests students must take to qualify for advancement and graduation.

Students not interested in going the post-secondary educational route wound up being shortchanged by the system. These reforms will change

all that, with the process opening up new paths forward for students in the 21st-century job market.

One of the most important reforms will be the ability of students to obtain credits toward graduation through internships, apprenticeships and industry-certification programs.

Coupled with that is a new program to grant three-year licenses to individuals in the private sector to teach public school classes in their particular areas of expertise: computer coding, cybersecurity, computer-aided design in high-tech manufacturing and the like.

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Op/Ed & Letters

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Google bans payday and other predatory loan ads CHARLENE CROWELL For more than a decade, broadbased coalitions at both the state and federal levels have united consumer advocates, labor, clergy, civil rights champions and others in calling for an end to predatory lending.

Although 16 states and the District of Columbia effectively ban payday lending, the majority of the nation is still subject to triple-digit interest rates applied to debt trap lending.

Even in states that have interest rate caps on payday loans, the smalldollar loan industry has tried a series of legislative maneuvers, or even attempts at voter updates through ballot initiatives to overturn laws. In other cases, lenders have moved to longer-term versions of the typical two-week payday loan as yet another financial vulture preying upon working class citizens.

Last week a global corporate giant took decisive action against payday lenders and others that charge tripledigit interest rates.

Google, the Internet’s leading search engine, announced that effective July 1 it will ban ads for payday loans and other loan products that require full repayment within 60 days. In the United States, Google will also ban ads for loans with an annual percentage rate of 36 percent or higher.

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our users from deceptive or harmful financial products,” noted Google in its corporate blog.

David Graff, Google’s director of Global Product Policy went a step further adding, “We have an extensive set of policies to keep bad ads out of our systems and we take these policies very seriously. In particular, financial services is an areas we look at very closely because we want to protect users from deceptive or harmful products.”

What Google termed a ‘policy change’ triggered a jubilant refrain from academicians, civil rights and consumer advocates. From their collective views, the decision was a pivotal breakthrough in the fight for financial justice for all.

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ads shows that Google is willing to put people before profits,” said Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. “This new policy addresses many of the long-standing concerns shared by the entire civil rights community about predatory payday lending… This ban puts payday loans in their rightful place alongside explosives and tobacco as dangerous products that deserve the highest level of scrutiny from regulators and businesses alike.”

“Unscrupulous payday lenders prey on the most vulnerable, including millions in communities of color in neighborhoods across America,” noted Janet Murguia, president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza. “This is a terrific example of how civil rights organizations and tech companies can come together to help protect the rights of all Americans online.”

“The Internet should not be a place that profits from your weaknesses,” said Alvaro Bedoya, executive director of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law. “If you’re broke and search the Internet for help, you should not be hit with ads for payday lenders charging 1,000 percent interest... For payday lenders, targeting the vulnerable is not an accident – it’s a business strategy. Today, the world’s most

valuable company is saying: ‘We want no part in this’.”

Each year, over $3.4 billion in excessive fees are drained from the pockets of payday borrowers, according to the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL). Over 75 percent of these fees are generated by borrowers trapped in 10 or more loans a year. Other CRL research findings show that: § Nearly one in four payday borrowers rely on retirement or public assistance as a means of income; § The national average APR for payday loans is 364 percent, and often rates are much higher; and § Payday borrowers are more likely to become delinquent on other bills, delay medical care, and, in the worst scenarios, file for bankruptcy.

“I think this action is as unprecedented as it is significant,” said Keith Corbett, a CRL executive vice president. “By removing ads that lure financially-strapped consumers into unaffordable, longterm and costly debt traps, Google is displaying what corporate citizenship looks like. CRL’s hope is that others will soon follow suit.”

Crowell is a communications manager with the Center for Responsible Lending. She can be reached at Charlene.crowell@ responsiblelending.org.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

On rights restoration

The Virginia Republicans need to end their campaign of misinformation. Virginia Republicans have been desperately trying to paint Governor McAuliffe’s executive order as “political opportunism,” in order to divert attention from their defense of an overtly racist law. [Recently], the Governor’s Office released a demographic breakdown of the 200,000 people whose voting rights will now be restored. What stood out for me was that 45.9 percent of disenfranchised voters are AfricanAmericans even though blacks only account for 19.4 percent of the Commonwealth’s entire population.

That clearly illustrates that the impact of this law was most keenly felt by African-Americans.

Governor McAuliffe’s actions are consistent with just about every other state in the Union. There’s nothing partisan, unusual or suspect about restoring voting rights for people who have paid their debt to society. Denying them that right is partisan. Denying them that right is unusual given that Virginia is only one of four states that requires people with felony convictions to petition the Governor to have their voting rights restored. And denying that right is suspect given the origins of the felony disenfranchisement laws.

Virginia Republicans are using every scare tactic they can dream up to attack the Governor’s motivations.

They claim that this gives license to rapists and murderers to sit on juries, while ignoring the fact that

79 percent of the people whose rights were restored had nonviolent felonies. They also claim that this is a partisan ploy that will give Democrats the edge in November. If that’s truly the case, then Republicans have been coasting into office all these years by limiting Democratic turnout.

I have a challenge for the Republican Party of Virginia. I want them to prove that they are not motivated by political opportunism by repealing the commonwealth’s restrictive photo ID law, by implementing early voting, and to fully fund the replacement of our aging voting equipment. I challenge them to break down the unnecessary barriers that were erected to keep people of color away from the polls.

If they are serious about protecting the integrity of our democracy then they should be willing to work with Democrats at the congressional level to restore the critical protections of the Voting Rights Act. Rep. Bobby Scott

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Virginia congressman’s bill would make it illegal for Donald Trump to ban Muslim immigrants A Virginia congressman announced a bill that would make it illegal for the United States to block an immigrant based on his or her religion.

The very short measure — just one full sentence — is meant as a symbolic swing at a key element of Donald Trump’s bid for president, his repeated pledge to temporarily stop all Muslims from entering the United States.

“An alien may not be denied admission to the United States because of the alien’s religion or lack of religious beliefs,” the text proposed by Rep. Don Beyer (DVa.) says. Beyer announced the bill at a news conference last week along with five other Democratic members of Congress and dozens of representatives of atheists and Muslim, Christian and Jewish religious organizations.

Of the six members of Congress and five religious leaders who spoke in favor of the bill, only one mentioned Trump by name. But all clearly referred to him.

Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) listed recent instances of bullying and one case of violence against Muslims in his Queens district. “When a candidate for president, a standardbearer, calls for a ban on an entire religion from entering this country, this is what happens,” he said, calling Beyer’s bill “important legislation” and “a noble effort.”

“We cannot allow fear and paranoia to drive our public policy, especially when it comes to the defining values of our country,” Beyer said in a statement. “Our Founding Fathers guaranteed religious freedom for all, in the First Amendment to our Constitution. People all around the world look to us as the standard for freedom, liberty and tolerance.”

It is not clear now that Trump

Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.), one of two Muslims in Congress, spoke in favor of a bill that would make it illegal to ban immigrants based on their religion. PHOTO: Julie Zauzmer would actually have the power as president to deny all Muslims entry to the country. Experts have said that while constitutional rights do not apply to non-U.S. citizens, international agreements would make such an immigration policy illegal.

With the legality of Trump’s plan at least somewhat in question, this bill seeks to more definitely prevent a president from taking such an action.

Beyer’s office said 54 Democrats and one Republican, Richard Hanna of New York, have agreed to co-sponsor the bill.

But some lawyers questioned the effect of the bill, if it were to manage to pass a Republican-controlled House.

“It’s well-meaning, but it’s not a sensible approach to the problem,” said Michael McConnell, a former federal judge who runs the Stanford

Constitutional Law Center. He pointed out that Congress often does want authorities to be able to consider immigrants’ religion: For example, in the case of refugees fleeing religious persecution.

“Religion is legitimately part of determinations under immigration.

Barring all Muslims is wrong. But barring all consideration of religion is wrong too,” McConnell said.

Beyer said the bill wouldn’t prevent authorities from considering immigrants’ religion, just from banning them based on it. “We want this bill to ban the negative use,” Beyer said. “It does nothing to hamper Homeland Security and Customs and Border Patrol from using religion as a reason to bring someone in.

“We can use it in a positive way, just not in a negative way.”

Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.)

said that as a former constitutional lawyer, she initially wondered why the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of religion was not sufficient to protect immigrants.

She quickly realized it was not, she said. “I looked into this and said, ‘Why are we having to do this?’ This is a very important bill,” she said. “The Constitution of the United States does not specifically protect immigrants and does not give immigrants the entire array of constitutional protections.”

The brief bill has the broad title “Freedom of Religion Act.” “Our voices must be loud and strong saying no to discrimination of all kinds, including in our immigration system,” Beyer said when introducing it. - WP

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Oprah will star in movie about Henrietta Lacks, whose cancer cells launched multimillion-dollar bioscience industry FREDERICK H. LOWE TriceEdneyWire - Oprah Winfrey will star in an HBO movie based on the 2010 nonfiction book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot.

Lacks was an African-American woman whose cancerous cells launched the multimillion-dollar bioscience industry that her family did not learn about until 20 years after her death.

Lacks’ cancerous cells were cultured without her knowledge or permission at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The cells were given to Dr. George Otto Gey, a researcher there.

Gey discovered the first immortal cell line for medical research, which is known as HeLa (Henrietta Lacks).

Unlike other cells that died after a

Henrietta Lacks in an undated family photo few days, Lacks’ cells continued to grow.

By 1954, the HeLa strain of cells was being used by Jonas Salk to develop a vaccine for polio. To test Salk’s new vaccine, the cells were

quickly put into mass production in the first-ever cell production factory.

In 1955, HeLa cells were the first human cells successfully cloned.

Lacks’ family, however, couldn’t afford health insurance. The family never benefitted from the money made from the discoveries.

The story will be told through the eyes of Lacks’ daughter, Deborah, played by Winfrey. In addition to Deborah, Lacks’ other children were Lawrence, David Jr., Joseph and Elisie. Her husband was David Lacks, Sr. Henrietta Lacks died on Oct. 4, 1951. She was buried in a grave without a headstone. In 2010, Dr. Roland Pattillo of Morehouse School of Medicine donated a headstone, after reading Skloot’s book.

A historical marker memorializing her has been installed in Lackstown,

Va., a section of Clover, Va., her hometown.

In 1996, Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta and the mayor of Atlanta recognized Henrietta Lacks’ family for her posthumous contributions to medicine and health research.

On September 14, 2011, the Board of Directors of of the Evergreen School District in Vancouver, Washington, named a new health and bioscience high school in her honor. The new school opened in the fall of 2013 and is named Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School.

George C. Wolfe, a veteran Broadway director and producer, will direct the HBO project, which is scheduled to begin filming this summer. Oprah is the film’s executive producer. The film’s release date has not been scheduled.

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Love story ‘Loving’ lands at Cannes

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My wife left me after 38 years and I now I want to DNA test my kids

Jeff Nichols’ quiet drama about the profound and simple love that toppled interracial marriage restrictions in the United States has made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival.

The film, “Loving,” stars Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton (above) as Mildred and Richard Loving, whose marriage got them jailed and exiled from Virginia but ultimately led to a landmark 1967 Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality.

“Loving,” which will open theatrically in the heart of awards season in November, is an unconventional civil rights drama that doesn’t swell with amplified Hollywood moments. Instead, it’s a straightforward portrait of the couple.

“I wanted to make a movie about two people in love,” said Nichols.

“I truly believe this is one of the most pure love stories in American history.”

Dear Alma, My wife and I divorced after 38 years of marriage. I still don’t understand why, I want to work it out, but she does not. I had intended on spending the rest of my life with her and now that won’t happen.

We had our up and downs, but overall I thought we had a solid commitment and happy marriage.

I was happy. She said that she was not and that I never listened to her.

She also gave many other reasons that I don’t think are true or care to discuss.

Sometimes I feel like my life is over. I have listened to all her lies and lately I’ve been thinking about my children and how I don’t think they look like me and I wonder if I am their father. When they were young and we were married I didn’t think much about it. But now they are all adults and listening to their mother and all of her lies, it makes me wonder.

I want them to have a DNA test and I want my wife to pay for it.

I do not want to discuss this with anybody in my family. Can you tell me where to get a DNA test of your children?

Signed, I Want A DNA Test Dear DNA Test, Oh no I won’t, but what I will do is try to stop you before you commence to making a mockery of your marriage and children with such foolery. Don’t you dare consider asking your adult children for a DNA test. You’ve raised them and they believe you to be their father, so then, that’s it – you are!

Your statue of limitations to confirm that has passed. Look on the bright side, like my mama use to say, “you feed ‘em they’ll favor you.”

LOL. So put your glasses back on.

I get the impression you’re a man of few words, and since I totally disagree with you, I won’t keep you long. Asking for a DNA test from

your children will only devastate and alienate them and you don’t want to do that. You’re hurt and the thought of finding love again seems impossible. Understandingly so, you were not planning to live out your latter years alone. Here’s my point, as long as you have life, you have another chance at love.

The mind can be tricky during the healing process of heartbreak.

Having endured more than a few myself, I remember every negative thought or action becomes totally consuming, taking you to a place where you can’t clearly decipher rational from irrational. I’m sorry you weren’t able to work things out with your wife, but I assure you, your life will get better.

Check out some old family pictures, you’re surely to be surprised and I hope tickled by the moments of reminiscing. Your kids look like you when you were younger, it’s you who changed. Age crept up on you and made a few adjustments.

Please, adhere to my advice, drop the notion or need for a DNA test. Don’t demean the love of your children as a pawn to get back at your wife. Whenever there’s an opportunity for you to continue to be the best father possible, you should take it. Invest in yourself, get back out there, go the church, volunteer, join a gym.

I know it may seem difficult as the days go by, but wake up appreciating life every day. This experience is the end of marriage, not your life. Meet death by surprise, don’t allow it to become a destination. The rest of your life can be the best of your life. It all depends on you. ***** Want advice? E-mail questions to alwaysaskalma@yahoo.com.Follow her on Facebook at “Ask Alma” and twitter @almaaskalma *****

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State of Black America 2016 Locked Out: Education, Jobs. and Justice MARCH. MORIAL PERSPECTIVE TriceEdneyWire “Eschewing political banalities, sloganeering and appeals to fears and suspicions, the candidates should seize the opportunity to challenge the nation to regain her sense of purpose by facing her imperfections, not apologetically, but with the firm resolve that this nation can and should do better.” — National Urban League Executive Director Vernon Jordan, the State of Black America, 1976.

As we observe the 40th anniversary of the State of Black America® the similarities of the United States of 1976 and the United States of 2016 are profoundly striking. The nation was recovering from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. According to the report, “Blacks suffered disproportionately because of their low position on the economic ladder as unemployment

(from page 2) by signs that the position of white Americans as a privileged majority is declining.

The researchers presented two groups of subjects with apparently innocuous reports about U.S. demographic trends and the white share of the population. One group read a report that showed population data only from 2000 to 2020, making it appear that the white majority remains relatively stable. The other group read a report that showed the trend since 1960 and predictions through 2060, forecasting that the white population would decline into a minority.

There were significantly greater levels of white support for the tea party among those who read the second report, which focused on the declining white population. Those who read that report rated their level of support for the tea party at an average of 1.62 points on a five-point scale, where a score of 5 signified “a great deal” of support.

climbed to depression levels in many of their communities ...” These words could just as easily apply to today.

The 2016 edition of the State of Black America® “Locked Out: Education, Jobs and Justice,” was released on Tuesday, during a live broadcast from the Newseum.

The report National Urban League’s annual analysis of black and Latino equality in America, and, for the second year it will be available in an all-digital format available at stateofblackamerica. org. Visitors will find the e-book, “Web Series”, select data, videos, articles and other frequently updated features. This year’s report again includes the Equality Index™, in its 11th year for the Black-White Index and its sixth year for the HispanicWhite Index – measuring how well blacks and Latinos are doing in comparison to their white peers in

five categories: economics, education, health, social justice and civic engagement.

The report will include a retrospective detailing America’s 40year progress in economic and social equality and opportunity. As this year’s report focuses on “Education, Jobs and Justice” it’s valuable to looking back to the state of black education, jobs and justice in 1976.

On education, Jordan wrote, “Not only were black children not being educated by the schools, a fact attested to by declining test scores, but they were also being thrown out of the institutions in disproportionate numbers for alleged infractions.”

On jobs: “Despite claims that the recession has bottomed out and the worst is behind us, unemployment is still rampant in the nation and even the most optimistic forecast projects a continuing official unemployment rate of over 7 percent. For blacks, this automatically means an official unemployment rate of 14 percent.”

Jordan added, “To assume that the nation can live with so many people unable to find jobs and forming a

permanent cadre of the helpless and hapless, is dangerous. And on justice: “While blacks are overrepresented as crime victims, they are underrepresented in the criminal justice system. The city of Chicago is an example with a population that is 32.7 percent black, it has a police force that is only 16 percent black.

A survey by the Race Relations Information Center revealed that in 42 states out of a total of 41,984 state police personnel, only 616 or 1.5 percent are black.”

At the launch of the State of Black America® 2016, “Locked Out: Education, Jobs and Justice,” we look forward to hearing from Vernon Jordan himself. Some of the nation’s leading thought-leaders, analysts and activists are featured in our Web Series such as David Johns, Jonathan Capehart, Mo Ivory and Sam White. The report itself includes essays from notables such as Journalist and author Joy-Ann Reid, Congresswoman Robin L. Kelly, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Sundial Brands Founder and CEO Richelieu Dennis.

Those who read the first report, showing that the white majority was relatively stable, rated their support at an average of 1.28 points. Again, supporters of the tea party were in the minority in both groups.

Willer and his collaborators repeated the experiment, this time with fictional economic data. In one report, the incomes of ethnic minorities were in decline, while white incomes were unchanged. In the second report, white incomes were declining while other groups’ incomes did not change.

In fact, incomes for all racial and ethnic groups have declined in tandem in recent years, with no one group gaining or losing relative to the others.

Yet Willer had a hunch that because white incomes have declined, some of the white participants in the experiment might feel that white households are losing their relative advantage in the U.S. economy. If so, the second report he showed them would have seemed to corroborate

this mistaken perception.

Previous research has shown that white Americans tend to see the trend toward racial equity as a kind of competition, in which one group's loss must be another group's gain. In particular, research shows, economic distress can exacerbate racial biases, since they give members of the dominant group the mistaken impression their relative position is endangered. White Americans get “the sense that they have a shrinking piece of a pie that is itself shrinking,” Willer explained.

With the second report, Willer and his colleagues showed that their subjects reinforced this unconscious bias and produced greater levels of white support for the tea party: Those who saw that report rated their support for the tea party at an average of 1.45 points. Those who saw the first report, showing incomes for racial minorities declining, rated their support at an average of 1.23 points.

This kind of zero-sum thinking

doesn’t seem common among racial minorities. If it were, then one would expect that minorities who read the first report -- showing their disadvantage increasing -- would be more likely to oppose the tea party as a protest against white privileges.

On the contrary, participants of color who saw the report that emphasized declining white economic status were more likely to oppose the tea party. Again, this difference might have been the product of random chance.

Willer started this series of experiments in 2011. He was already wrapping up the research when Trump announced his presidential campaign by calling Mexican immigrants criminals, so he doesn't have direct evidence on whether racial biases have contributed to Trump’s success. Yet other research suggests that some white voters’ perception that their dominance as a racial group is threatened has motivated some to cast ballots for the presumptive Republican nominee.

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Miseries for the homeless don’t end in the spring and summer KISHANA FLENORY TriceEdneyWire - Every winter, more than 3.5 billion people are homeless in the U. S., according to the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty. When the season changes to spring and then summer, the socio-economic, mental health and other conditions afflicting the homeless remain steady.

Therefore, though the issue of homelessness in the warm weather may not seem as dire, those who deal with the needs of the homeless year round say their work continues with the same intensity.

“The temperature outside - whether it’s hot or cold - is not healthy for a person who lives outdoors,” said Megan Hustings, director of the D.C. National Coalition for the Homeless.

Hustings said that in either of the extremes, very hot or very cold, a person is subject to illness if they live outside.

The root causes of homelessness must also be dealt with year round, experts said. Whether mental illness, addiction disorders, unemployment,

poverty or other situations, each person or family has his or her own story, said John Lozier, executive director of the National Alliance to End Homelessness.

“Homelessness reflects that a lot has gone wrong in a person’s life,” Lozier said. “It could be their personal life or social economic systems.”

Lozier also pointed out that homeless people have the same illnesses as people with homes.

However, due to weather conditions, whether cold or poor air quality due to heat or just the stress of living outside, illnesses among the homeless can be three to six times worse than someone with a home, he said.

Despite the care that’s available to the homeless, some shelters are almost as bad as living on the street; regardless of the season, some said.

“The conditions in some of the shelters I have been placed in were terrible,” said Uniqua Johnson, a 30-year-old New York resident.

However, I had nowhere else to go.

So, I was forced to stay there.”

In good weather, homeless people often rest in local parks across U.S. cities. But the needs of the homeless do not end with warm weather. PHOTO: Kishana Flenory/Howard University News Service Johnson said she was homeless because she was unemployed.

With no money to pay rent for an apartment, she ended up on the

Sex Offender Helpline The helpline provides support to communities on issues related to accessing sex offender registration information; responsible use of information; sexual abuse prevention resources; and accessing crime victim support services.

The tips program provides the public an opportunity to report registrants who are failing to comply with registration requirements.

Tips can also be provided at www.parentsformeganslaw.org.

This program is not intended to be used to report police emergencies.

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U.S. suicide rate surges to a 30-year high WASHINGTON — Suicide in the United States has surged to the highest levels in nearly 30 years, a federal data analysis has found, with increases in every age group except older adults. The rise was particularly steep for women. It was also substantial among middle-aged Americans, sending a signal of deep anguish from a group whose suicide rates had been stable or falling since the 1950s.

The suicide rate for middle-aged women, ages 45 to 64, jumped by 63 percent over the period of the study, while it rose by 43 percent for men in that age range, the sharpest increase for males of any age. The overall suicide rate rose by 24 percent from 1999 to 2014, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, which released the study on Friday.

The increases were so widespread that they lifted the nation’s suicide rate to 13 per 100,000 people, the highest since 1986. The rate rose by 2 percent a year starting in 2006, double the annual rise in the earlier period of the study. In all, 42,773 people died from suicide in 2014, compared with 29,199 in 1999.

From 1999 to 2014, suicide rates in the United States rose among most age groups. Men and women from 45 to 64 had a sharp increase. Rates fell among those age 75 and older.

“It’s really stunning to see such a large increase in suicide rates affecting virtually every age group,” said Katherine Hempstead, senior adviser for health care at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, who has identified a link between suicides in middle age and rising rates of distress about jobs and personal finances.

Researchers also found an alarming increase among girls 10 to 14, whose suicide rate, while still very low, had tripled. The number of girls who killed themselves rose to 150 in 2014 from 50 in 1999. “This one certainly jumped out,” said Sally Curtin, a statistician at the center and an author of the report.

American Indians had the sharpest rise of all racial and ethnic groups, with rates rising by 89 percent for women and 38 percent for men.

White middle-aged women had an increase of 80 percent.

What to Do If You Need Help There are many groups that help people having suicidal thoughts. One, Crisis Text Line, inspired by teenagers’ attachment to texting but open to people of all ages, provides free assistance to anyone who texts “help” to 741-741.

If you prefer to talk on the phone, N.I.H. recommends the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

The rate declined for just one racial group: black men. And it declined for only one age group: men and women over 75.

The data analysis provided fresh evidence of suffering among white Americans. Recent research has highlighted the plight of less educated whites, showing surges in deaths from drug overdoses, suicides, liver disease and alcohol poisoning, particularly among those with a high school education or less. The new report did not break down suicide rates by education, but researchers who reviewed the analysis said the patterns in age and race were consistent with that recent research and painted a picture of desperation for many in American society.

“This is part of the larger emerging pattern of evidence of the links between poverty, hopelessness and health,” said Robert D. Putnam, a professor of public policy at Harvard and the author of “Our Kids,” an investigation of new class divisions in America.

The rise in suicide rates has happened slowly over many years.

Federal health researchers said they chose 1999 as the start of the period they studied because it was a low point in the national suicide rate and they wanted to cover the full period of its recent sustained rise.

The federal health agency’s last major report on suicide, released in 2013, noted a sharp increase in suicide among 35- to 64-year-olds.

But the rates have risen even more since then — up by 7 percent for the entire population since 2010, the end of the last study period — and federal researchers said they issued the new report to draw attention to the issue.

Policy makers say efforts to prevent suicide across the country are spotty. While some hospitals and health systems screen for suicidal thinking and operate good treatment

programs, many do not.

“We have more and more effective treatments, but we have to figure out how to bake them into health care systems so they are used more automatically,” said Dr. Jane Pearson, chairwoman of the National Institute of Mental Health’s Suicide Research Consortium, which oversees the National Institutes of Health funding for suicide prevention research. “We’ve got bits and pieces, but we haven’t really put them all together yet.”

She noted that while N.I.H. funding for suicide prevention projects had been relatively flat — rising to $25 million in 2016 from $22 million in 2012 — it was a small fraction of funding for research of mental illnesses, including mood disorders like depression.

The new federal analysis noted that the methods of suicide were changing. About one in four suicides in 2014 involved suffocation, which includes hanging and strangulation, compared with fewer than one in five in 1999. Suffocation deaths are harder to prevent because nearly anyone has access to the means, Hempstead said. And while the share of suicides involving guns declined — guns went from being involved in 37 percent of female suicides to 31 percent, and from 62 percent to 55 percent for men — the total number of gun suicides increased..

The question of what has driven the increases is unresolved, leaving experts to muse on the reasons.

Julie Phillips, a professor of sociology at Rutgers who has studied suicide among middle-aged Americans, said social changes could be raising the risks. Marriage rates have declined, particularly among less educated Americans, while divorce rates have risen, leading to increased social isolation, she said. She calculated that in 2005,

unmarried middle-aged men were 3.5 times more likely than married men to die from suicide, and their female counterparts were as much as 2.8 times more likely to kill themselves.

The divorce rate has doubled for middle-aged and older adults since the 1990s, she said.

Disappointed expectations of social and economic well-being among less educated white men from the babyboom generation may also be playing a role, she said. They grew up in an era that valued “masculinity and selfreliance” — characteristics that could get in the way of asking for help.

“It appears this group isn’t seeking help but rather turning to selfdestructive means of dealing with their despair,” Professor Phillips said.

Another possible explanation: an economy that has eaten away at the prospects of families on the lower rungs of the income ladder.

Dr. Alex Crosby, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said he had studied the association between economic downturns and suicide going back to the 1920s and found that suicide was highest when the economy was weak. One of the highest rates in the country’s modern history, he said, was in 1932, during the Great Depression, when the rate was 22.1 per 100,000, about 70 percent higher than in 2014.

“There was a consistent pattern,” he said, which held for all ages between 25 and 64. “When the economy got worse, suicides went up, and when it got better, they went down.”

But other experts pointed out that the unemployment rate had been declining in the latter period of the study, and questioned how important the economy was to suicide.

The gap in suicide rates for men and women has narrowed because women’s rates are increasing faster than men’s. But men still kill themselves at a rate 3.6 times that of women. Though suicide rates for older adults fell over the period of the study, men over 75 still have the highest suicide rate of any age group — 38.8 per 100,000 in 2014, compared with just four per 100,000 for their female counterparts.

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Black men returned to the job market in April FREDDIE ALLEN NNPA - The black unemployment rate ticked down from 8.9 percent in March to 8.8 percent in April and black men showed gains in the labor market, according to the latest jobs report from the Labor Department.

The national unemployment rate was stagnant at 5 percent and the jobless rate for white workers hasn’t changed since December 2015 and was 4.3 percent again in April.

William Spriggs, the chief economist for the AFL-CIO, an organization that represent 56 unions represents 12.5 million workers in the United States,

Rep. Bobby Scott tweeted that April was “Another

(from page 13) the Rev. Joanne Holston, president of to never end up in a shelter again.

Those who work with homelessness, said it requires the coordination of many levels of society. The Steward B. McKinney Assistance Act, established by Congress in 1986, aimed to coordinate the federal response to homelessness and to create partnerships between the federal, state, local and private agencies to address homelessness.

Due to local legislation, in some areas - like Washington. and New York - the homeless are required to be accepted into shelters when the temperature drops to 32 degrees or lower, when the wind chill drops below zero degrees, when snow is more than six inches or when ice storms and freezing rain occurs.

There are many illnesses a homeless person can receive from being outdoors for long periods of time.

During the winter, frostbite and hypothermia, the result of the body temperature being abnormally low, is among the major issues, said David Hornig, a receptionist at Hope Mission in Washington.

“Frostbite affects a person’s body,” Hornig said. “Their faces, ears, arms become affected by this illness.”

In the spring, severe issues continue and new issues arise, said

the Anchor of Hope for the Homeless ministry at Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church in D.C. “During the summer and spring they still need toiletries and they need places to take showers and places to bathe because it’s hot,” Holston said, noting that food and water are also needed year round.

Holston said there is great need for the public to continue to contribute to homeless shelters year round beyond the drives of Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Sometimes the city issues a “Code Red” meaning no one should be outside due to the heat and poor air quality, she said.

“So even though the weather is nice and they can sleep outside, they still need a place to stay,” she said.

“That’s very crucial.”

Many homeless people are not mentally ill or on drugs, as is often the perception, she said. Instead, many simply lost their jobs, she said.

So, beyond tangible needs, they also need kindness and empathy, she said.

“They need to know that people care and that they’re not looked down upon because homelessness has a different face now,” she said. “They’re not just out there. They’ve had other positions and other lives. And that’s year round.”

month blacks with Associates Degrees have lower unemployment rate than whites who are high school dropouts, but higher than HS grads.”

Spriggs also noted that the loss of jobs in the federal government and local public education were “big drags” on the labor market.

The unemployment rate for black men over 20 years old rose from 8.7 percent in March to 9.5 percent in April. The jobless rate for white men, ticked up slightly from 3.9 percent in March to 4 percent last month.

The unemployment rate for black women over 20 years old was 8 percent in March and 6.9 percent in April. The unemployment rate for white women increased from 3.9 percent in March to 4 percent in April.

In a blog for the Economic Policy Institute’s (EPI) website, Elise Gould, a senior economist for EPI, wrote that, “Even with the downward revisions to March, job growth looks slower than first quarter of this year (averaging 203,000) or last quarter of 2015 (averaging 282,000).”

Gould continued: “While it is true that as the economy reaches full employment, job growth would be expected to slow, we are not nearly close enough to full employment to view this slow down as a positive move.”

While other adult worker groups declined in some key economic indicators in April, black men returned to the labor market last month. The labor force participation rate (LFPR), which is the share of workers who are employed or currently looking for jobs, rose slightly for black men over 20 years-old from 67.2 percent in March to 68.1 percent in April.

The employment-population ratio (E-POP), which is the share of the population that is employed, increased for black men from 61.4 percent in March to 61.6 percent in April.

Meanwhile the LFPR for white men ticked down from 72.3 percent in March to 72.1 percent in April. The E-POP for white men decreased from 69.4 percent in March to 69.2 percent in April.

The LFPR for black women over 20 years-old fell more than a percentage point from 61.5 percent in March to

60.2 percent in April and the LFPR for white women slipped from 58 percent in March to 57.8 percent last month.

Gould also noted that the labor force participation rate for “primeage workers” (25-54 years-old) also fell in April and the number of missing workers increased to 2.5 million.

“If the unemployment rate included these [missing] workers, who would be employed or looking for work if the labor market were stronger, it would be 6.5 percent, as opposed to the official rate of 5 percent,” said Gould. “In general, labor force participation has been on the rise (and the number of missing workers has been falling) so hopefully this is just a one-month blip in the data and next month we will continue will the more promising trends.”

Gould suggested that the economy needed steady gains in the labor force participation rate and stronger wage growth for a sustained period of time before economists can say that the U.S. job market is nearing full employment and a healthy economy.

In a statement about the most recent jobs report, Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) said that under President Obama and his administration, we continue to recover from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

Scott blamed the Republican majorities in the United States House of Representatives and Senate for blocking a number of bold initiatives and policies crafted by the Labor Department that would “help protect retirees’ savings, workers on the job, and workers’ right to organize.”

Scott continued: “These attacks are a waste of the taxpayers’ time and money, and would be harmful to working families if they ever succeeded.”

Scott called for U.S. lawmakers to refocus their priorities and to support labor market reforms.

“Together, we can work on bipartisan solutions to boost wages, help workers balance work and family life, and level the playing field for American workers,” said Scott.

“We owe it to working people to build on the economic progress we have seen these past 74 months.”

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Pets from all localities are welcome. Cats must be in carriers.

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Thousands of rich Americans live in taxpayer-subsidized public housing DREW JOHNSON

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UNS - Tens of thousands of highincome Americans live in low-income A 2014 published report found that several public housing residents who housing, according to a federal audit. start making more money as their life circumstances improve, tend to More than 25,000 families inhabit continue living in public housing despite the fact that thousands who really federally subsidized housing, need the service remain on waiting lists for years. even though their incomes exceed While the vast majority of people already in public housing have an limits for public-housing eligibility, annual income of less than $20,000, there are examples of some residents according to a probe by the inspector making far more. According to income data provided by housing authorities, general for the U.S. Department of there have been numerous households making more than $60,000 a year.

Housing and Urban Development That is beyond the income limit for a two person household, that for (HUD). example, in Richmond, during the application process was $46,650.

Critics say WTVR found one family of five living in a Richmond housing these overcommunity making more than $82,000 while the income limit for a income residents five person household in Richmond during the application process cost taxpayers was $77,000. more than $100 According to the Richmond housing authority, U.S. Department million annually of Housing and Urban Development rules “prohibit housing and displace authorities from denying housing to residents who previously disadvantaged met HUD’s income requirements.” Additionally, the authority citizens who need noted that there is no requirement for housing authorities to evict public housing. residents once they surpass the income limit.

In order to be Instead, HUD lets individual housing authorities determine how eligible for public to deal with that situation. According to HUD, all public housing housing, a family residents pay 30 percent of their income toward rent. As such, must satisfy a the higher an income, the more a resident is paying to live there, formula that therefore taxpayers are not subsidizing nearly as much for higher combines family income residents. size, gross family David Williams income and the area’s median income.

One family in Lake Linden, thresholds.

Once families move into public Michigan, collected $401,000 in Few housing programs, however, housing, however, authorities often take-home-pay, even though no enforce such regulations. Among let them stay indefinitely, no matter one earning more than $29,600 the 15 housing authorities in HUD’s how high their income grows. was supposed to inhabit its public audit, all admitted they still let overAs a result, one Manhattan family apartment. income families stay in subsidized living in public housing earned A San Francisco family earned housing. $498,000 in 2014 – $431,000 more $437,000 a year, according to the “The bureaucrats in charge of the than the $67,000 income ceiling HUD investigation, but refused to public housing programs have no allowed. The family paid just give up its subsidized housing. incentive to kick people out, once $1,574 a month for a three-bedroom One family with $6.1 million in they begin earning too much money apartment in the financial district, assets lived in subsidized housing to live in housing projects,” said where equivalent monthly rents in Puerto Rico intended for a family David Williams, the president of the exceed $5,000. Like others in HUD’s earning less than $20,000 a year.

Washington, D.C.-based Taxpayers audit, this family was not named.

This situation is most pronounced Protection Alliance. “Taxpayers are The report lacks identifying details. in New York City, where 10,250 units left paying millions of dollars to HUD has tried to bar high-income managed by the city’s housing authority subsidize the housing for people who residents from low-income housing. are occupied by residents whose make hefty, six-figure incomes.”

Through a rule issued in 2004, it earnings exceed eligibility limits.

HUD’s audit supports Williams’ empowered local public housing Investigators also found that perspective. It found that 1,936 authorities to write guidelines that 1,219 over-income residents dwell in families who earned more than would force tenants to move if their subsidized housing in Puerto Rico. $100,000 lived in public housing in incomes surpassed federal eligibility Taxpayers spend $104 million a 2014.

year to subsidize people in federal housing, even though they make too much money, according to investigators.

“It is outrageous that taxpayers are footing the bill for millionaires’ housing,” said Rep. Vern Buchanan (R – Florida). “This type of abuse hurts truly needy families.”

About 580,000 low-income families currently await vacancies in federal housing, HUD estimates.

This frustrates Lilia Cruz, who has lived in a Connecticut housing project for 18 years.

“I don’t think it’s fair,” said Cruz, who says she lives on less than $8,000 a year. “It’s ridiculous that those people live in public housing when they can afford to move out and open up a place for someone who really needs a place to live.”

Milan Ozdinec disagrees. As HUD’s deputy assistant secretary for public housing and voucher programs, he sees value in letting affluent residents retain their units, even if they shut out needy families.

“The existence of over-income families aid [public-housing authorities] in meeting their obligation to deconcentrate poverty and also serve to stabilize neighborhoods, because families working towards self-sufficiency serve as good role models to other tenants,” Ozdinec wrote in a June 2015 letter reacting to the inspector general’s findings.

Ozdinec also expressed concern that forcing high-income families to leave public housing could affect their ability to stay employed and disrupt their children’s learning, if they were forced to change schools within academic years.

Buchanan sponsored legislation requiring HUD to verify the income of public-housing residents and make them move once their earnings surpass the ceiling.

The bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously in February but is stalled in the Senate.

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