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Does it really cost more money to be poor?

(NECN) - It doesn't sound quite right, but it is expensive to be poor. A local Boston University professor has released an article on the high cost of being poor. Tiziana Dearing, President of Catholic Charities for the Archdiocese of ...

Video|Tue, 18 Aug 2009|More from Boston.com
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“…poverty use credit cards for their basic necessities more often than the middle class so if you automatically paying 25% interest whenever -- grocery purchase. -- you had to use your credit card for groceries because …”

Police investigate alleged sexual assault in Coolidge Corner

(NECN: Josh Brogadir, Brookline, Mass.) - Police in Brookline, Massachusetts are looking for two men who attacked a woman early this morning. The woman told police she was walking near Coolidge Corner when she was hit over the head, and sexually.....

Video|Tue, 18 Aug 2009|More from Boston.com
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“…people who live in this neighborhood describe it as -- upper middle class safe and our shot that anything like that could happen here. …”

Here and Now for Thursday, August 13, 2009

On today's podcast — right-wing rhetoric and health care reform; the myth of Asia rising; the Obama family heads to Martha's Vineyard; security issues for businesses in Iraq; and musician Mark Stewart.

Audio|Thu, 13 Aug 2009|More from PRI: Here & Now Podcast
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“…the summer resort. I think it was the first middle and upper middle class black former colonies in the United States. …”

Can We Talk about Race?

Spelman College President Beverly Daniel Tatum sounds a warning call about the increasing but underreported resegregation of America, on the 53rd anniversary of the Bro wn v. Board of Education de cision. A self-described "integration baby," Tatum sees our growing isolation from one another as deeply problematic, and she believes that schools can be key institutions for forging connections across the racial division. In this book, Tatum examines some of the most resonant issues in American education and race relations. As an acknowledged expert on race relations in the classroom and the development of racial identity, she participated in President Clinton's "Dialogue on Race" and lectures extensively throughout the country. Tatum is also the writer of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Assimilation Blues.

Audio|Wed, 12 Aug 2009|More from WGBH Forum Network | Public Domain Podcast Podcast
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“…in the same way -- Spin. Where it's just day in middle class -- even if it's. That. Then yeah. -- want to. And what he that is. Is you. Yeah. If it's. It's really …”

8/12/09: Guest, US Secr. of Commerce, Gary Locke

Jim & Margery with guest, US Secretary of Commerce, Gary Locke re; healthcare and the economy. 8/12/09.

Audio|Wed, 12 Aug 2009|More from Jim & Margery Podcast
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“…make sure that we have a lasting sustainable. Economic recovery in which middle class. . Benefit and not just the Wall Street bankers with a little. …”

A Civil Discourse At Obama Health Care Forum

New Hampshire has given President Obama a relatively calm start to his summer push for support of expanding health insurance coverage. In Portsmouth, protesters rallied outside the president's town hall style meeting, as they've done inside similar sessions held by congressional representatives in recent weeks. But, at the president's forum, the heckling stayed outside the hall. WBUR's Fred Thys reports.

Audio|Wed, 12 Aug 2009|More from WBUR: Daily News Update
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“…speed definitively said he would not taxes are raised taxes on the middle class. . Com I thought you referenced it calmly answered my questions and how in the pledging New Hampshire. On the connected to that pledge. But he didn't definitively today. On yeah. No team captains for middle class. . It's President George Bush first it when he was running for president. …”

“…I'm wondering how we're gonna do this without raising taxes on the middle class because I don't want the burden upon my parents. …”

State treasurer weighs in on MBTA debate

WBZ's Ed Walsh has the interview.

Audio|Wed, 12 Aug 2009|More from WBZ's More on This
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“…to some election. You know solve problems. Some of that relates the middle class. . I don't think that the into the duties are to -- any will be able party. Independent Republican or Democrat will be …”

“…and knows a rock cost there -- Born you know most about middle class so low class people. In the need to work and we can make it more difficult for them to get to work …”

Breaking through the Blue Wall of Silence #32-09 August 12, 2009

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Audio|Wed, 12 Aug 2009|More from National Radio Project/Making Contact Podcast - 64k version
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“…If you're white and middle class you're interactions of police officers may be qualitatively and quantitatively different. Then that of a young African American men are young with …”

“…Super Bowl victory celebration in San Francisco that turned into a riot. Middle class people. Coming to going from dinner in north beach or -- by police officers. And suddenly their friends -- how could this …”

Here and Now for Friday, August 7, 2009

On today's podcast — Unfinished business in Congress as August recess begins; struggling African-American media outlets; Hillary Clinton in Africa; listener letters; and the new film, "Julie and Julia."

Audio|Fri, 7 Aug 2009|More from PRI: Here & Now Podcast
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“…cultured society where if you want it to be an aspiration on middle class black person you could turn to this and and identify with its way or. You know. To critics if you wanted to …”

“…is that substantiate. Dated gain a thorough coverage. Communities that. Are not middle class communities that are majority people of color are things that just do not get as much consistent. Meaningful coverage in the daily …”