How to Save the American Dream

How to save the American Dream
The partisan picking apart of last month's Congressional Budget Office report on the minimum wage – and the debate over its impact on employment – was just the latest missed opportunity to find bipartisan solutions for this country's problems. Sadly …
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Legal weed's race problem: White men get rich, black men stay in prison
“Black men and boys” have been the target of the war on drugs' racist policies—stopped, frisked and disturbed—“often before they're old enough to vote,” she said. Those youths are arrested most often for nonviolent first offenses that would go …
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Two years for Threshold theft
LISBON – An East Palestine woman who stole nearly $ 45,000 from mentally disabled clients at Threshold Residential Services to feed her own gambling addiction will spend the next two years in prison in Marysville. Cynthia Robb, 53, North Market Street …
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