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Fighting Poverty in Harlem: It Takes a Village
Charles M. Blow, the New York Times op-ed columnist, writes about the Broadway Housing Communities, which runs six buildings in West Harlem. One of them is a recently transformed drug haven, where workers and residents work together to transform lives in one New York City’s poorest neighborhoods. I met Madison and 50 other little rays…
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The Global War for Good Jobs
Charles M. Blow, the New York Times op-ed columnist, talks about a new book, The Coming Jobs War, to underscore the importance of job creation — good-job creation — in the U.S. in order for the country to remain globally competitive. There are now 46.2 million poor Americans. Of those, 2.6 million fell into poverty…
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President Obama: Rise of the Fallen?
Charles M. Blow, the New York Times op-ed columnist, dissects President Barack Obama’s jobs-plan speech to determine whether he has truly shifted strategy. President Obama was champing at the bit during Thursday night’s speech to a joint session of Congress. He’d had it with those do-nothings. He was going to show everyone that he could…
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We Should Be Praising Teachers
New York Times op-ed columnist Charles M. Blow celebrates teachers during this back-to-school season. He asks how the best and brightest can be expected to enter the profession when its workers are repeatedly torn down. Like so many others, it was a teacher who changed the direction of my life, and to whom I’m forever…
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Failing the Nation's Children
Charles M. Blow writes in his New York Times column that some laws are exacerbating the problems that children increasingly face, including laws that restrict abortions. We have a growing crisis among the nation’s children, yet our policies ignore that reality at best and exacerbate it at worst. According to a report issued this week…
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Obama Needs Less Valley and More Mountaintop
Charles M. Blow writes in his New York Times opinion column that President Barack Obama is the one person he never expected to fall into that valley of robotic politics that rouses discomfort among voters. … It can be found in the “Artificial Intelligence” of Michele Bachmann and her pull-the-string-in-the-middle-of-my-back compulsion to repeat the same…
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Genuflecting to the Tea Party
New York Times columnist Charles Blow tries to determine the Tea Party’s allegiance. Is it to itself, or to promoting governance in a democratic society? I must confess that every time Representative Michele Bachmann uttered the phrase “as president of the United States” during Thursday’s Republican presidential debate I blacked out a little bit, so…
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Report: Recession Catastrophic for Children
In his New York Times column, Charles Blow breaks down a new report that says the recession has had a catastrophic impact on children’s well-being. One of the greatest casualties of the great recession may well be a decade of lost children. According to “The State of America’s Children 2011,” a report issued last month…
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Charles Blow: My Own Captain America
Charles Blow, in his New York Times column, writes a stirring account of how seeing the film Captain America evoked strong memories of his grandfather, who fought in World War II as a “Buffalo Soldier.” My grandfather spoke to me this week. That would’ve been unremarkable if not for the fact that he died four…
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