- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 6, 2012
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Another price of segregation: not just homicide, but countless walking wounded
More than 2,300 people have been shot in Chicago this year, and the toll is often great even for those who survive
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 3, 2012
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Smell-o-vision replaces television?!
How unexpected odors can enhance our experience of a film
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 21, 2012
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On the scene at Cranksgiving Chicago, the annual "food drive on two wheels"
The bike race/food drive showcases the generous side of the bike-messenger subculture
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 26, 2012
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Rahmnesia
On politicians not subject to recall
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 24, 2012
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CIFF notes: talking cheap with Gimme the Loot director Adam Leon
An interview with the writer-director of the independent New York comedy Gimme the Loot
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 18, 2012
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Chicago schools: even more segregated than they seem
There's great potential for diverse schools in Cook County
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 4, 2012
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Chicago's growing racial gap in child poverty
In Chicago, the poverty rate for black kids is more than five times the rate for white kids. And the gap is growing.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 21, 2012
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Poverty still rising in Chicago
In a segregated city, growing poverty is easy to ignore
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 12, 2012
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Good news: poverty not worse
The U.S. poverty rate remains high, but it didn't rise in 2011
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 12, 2012
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Loss in The Crowd
Questioning the moral foundation of King Vidor's silent classic
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 11, 2012
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Census stats likely to show highest poverty rate since 1965
When will the presidential candidates notice?
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 6, 2012
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Obama's acceptance speech
How much could Obama talk about poverty without risking his reelection?
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 5, 2012
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Is poverty among Obama's priorities?
Presidents choose which crises to respond to. For more than 40 years now, poverty hasn't made the cut
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 30, 2012
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Paul Ryan made it, so why can't everyone?
What if Ryan had grown up on Garfield Boulevard in Chicago instead of Garfield Avenue in Janesville?
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 21, 2012
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Obama's (former) vow to attack poverty
Back when the president was just a candidate, poverty was on his agenda
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