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'poverty'

State distributes $6.7 million to schools with high test scores

The state Education Department today announced the list of 175 schools that will share in $6.7 million in "recognition" awards for high student test scores in grades 3-10. The rich get richer, generally speaking.
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Race, poverty and school quality: More facts behind the school grades

Dr. Michael Mills, an education professor, has dug deeper into school statistics to illustrate a point the Hutchinson administration is missing in grading schools and awarding bonus money — race and poverty matter.
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Poverty, employment data tell of improving well-being in Arkansas, with caveats

Census data and unemployment figures show more jobs for Arkansans and less poverty. But the state still lags national figures by a wide margin, and income inequality keeps widening in Arkansas and everywhere.

Little Rock police, pot and poverty

A surge in misdemeanor marijuana arrests by Little Rock police, concentrated in poorer areas of town, seems a relevant topic in Police Chief Kenton Buckner's remarks on the roots of crime in the city.
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More than two thirds of cuts in Ryan budget would slash programs for the poor

Paul Ryan's recently released budget was supposed to be a "comprehensive anti-poverty agenda" that would "speak directly to people who have fallen through the cracks." Lately, of course, Ryan has been aggressively trying to re-brand himself as an advocate for the poor. The Ayn Rand fan with no time for the 47 percent of takers? That was the old Ryan, and it doesn't sell politically with a public increasingly concerned about inequality. But what would his budget actually do? The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is releasing a report today and finds that a whopping 69 percent of the cuts target programs for low-income people — Medicaid, food stamps, grants for college, SSI, school lunch and child nutrition programs, and more.

Poor and poorer: Arkansas is still poor, but not as poor as before the War on Poverty

Statelines provides an interesting report on the state of poverty in America 50 years after LBJ launched his War on Poverty.
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The House 'shrunken heart' caucus

It's a tale perfectly timed for Christmas, when people rouse themselves to drop a few alms in a Salvation Army bucket and warm themselves in the glow of the charitable impulse for 12 months until another bell rings for help for the year-round forgotten.

School rankings: One size doesn't fit all

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette devoted a significant amount of real estate in the Sunday newspaper to some number crunching by the Walton-financed school reformers up at the University of Arkansas.
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The U.S. gets poorer

New Census data shows more people in poverty, declining median income and a rise in number, though not percentage, of people without health insurance.

The poor get poorer

States are resolving financial problems by cuts in spending on the poor. It will not improve their lot, needless to say.
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Best of the Worst?

Little Rock winds up on CNBC's list of "20 Cities You Don't Want To Live In...
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