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GUEST COMMENTARY: Poverty, not bad teachers, should be focus
Poverty, not bad teachers, is the main reason for poor test scores in schools. One-fifth of American children live in poverty, and facing up to that reality is a moral issue.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Education helps propel people out of poverty
Addressing poverty issues is a complex task. There is no easy answer for how to bring people out of poverty and, more important, how to keep them from dropping back in.
Indiana jobless rate rises for 4th straight month
Indiana's unemployment rate continued its recent upward trend by increasing to 8.9 percent for September-but jobless rates dipped in each of Northwest Indiana's seven counties.
Indiana jobless rate rises for 4th straight month
INDIANAPOLIS | Indiana's unemployment rate has continued its recent upward trend by increasing to 8.9 percent for September.
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Are we headed for a war, rich against poor?
I don't know anybody who has not heard there is an economic crisis in the United States — and the world. Yet we are constantly confronted by people who insist those suffering somehow brought their condition upon themselves.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Who really makes the minimum wage?
Indiana and Illinois share a border, but the similarities between the two end there.
GUEST COMMENTARY: U.S. welfare system needs major reforms
The welfare system as it currently is administered is designed to fleece the public and keep the poor and minorities in their place.
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