A Look At The 10 U.S. Metro Areas With The Highest LGBT Populations
David McNew via Getty Images Curtis M. Wong | Huffington Post | March 20, 2015 The West Coast has a significantly higher number of cities with burgeoning lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...
View ArticleIf You Want a Living Wage, Be Prepared to Go On Strike for It
Strikes are incredibly successful in achieving wage hikes but they are rarely used anymore. (photo: Justin Lane/EPA) Boots Riley | Guardian UK | Reader Supported News | July 21, 2015 The fast-food...
View ArticleBrutality behind bars: School & job training out of reach for many inmates
RT America | August 14, 2015 Inmates that leave prison have few jobs prospects. Recidivism rates for ex-cons from cities like Los Angeles, as well as those being released from prisons across the...
View Article13,000 Become Homeless Every Month in Los Angeles County, Study Says
Los Angeles’s homeless. (photo: Frederic J. Brown) Haya El Nasser | Al Jazeera America | Reader Supported News | August 27, 2015 Chronic homelessness, especially among children and youth, is...
View ArticleBankers Are Buying Baltimore’s Debt, Charging Families Crazy Interest Rates,...
Baltimore police car at crime scene. (photo: Patrick Semansky/AP) Alice Ollstein | ThinkProgress | Reader Supported News | August 29, 2015 he death of Freddie Gray in police custody in Baltimore...
View ArticleOn-Duty Police Officers Have Shot and Killed More Than 700 People This Year
A police exercise in Paducah, Kentucky. (photo: Maximillian Curry/flickr/cc) Wesley Lowery | The Washington Post | Reader Supported News | September 19, 2015 he tally of people shot and killed by...
View ArticleFeds fear massive LA wiretap operation could be ruled illegal
RT America | November 13, 2015 A massive wiretapping operation used for years to intercept drug trafficking operations in a suburban Los Angeles town might be illegal, according to Justice...
View ArticlePolice used apparently illegal wiretaps to make hundreds of arrests
© REUTERS/Mike Blake Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents take inventory of seized cocaine packages, at Naval Base San Diego, October 6, 2014. Some 28,000 pounds (12.7 ton) of cocaine were seized by...
View ArticleImmigration Officials Could Soon Knock on the Doors of 18,000 Central...
Children of immigrants in the U.S. join a demonstration calling on President Obama not to break up their families. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Esther Yu-Hsi Lee | ThinkProgress | Reader...
View ArticleTwin Study: Marijuana Use Does Not Effect IQ Decline
NORML | January 21, 2016 Los Angeles, CA: The cumulative use of cannabis by adolescents has no direct effect on intelligence decline, according to longitudinal data published in the Proceedings of the...
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