Posts Tagged The Commonwealth Institute
A Racial Divide for Mental Health Care Exists in Virginia
Posted by dmjones101 in Virginia's News on August 4, 2017
For years, lawmakers in Virginia have struggled to find ways to expand mental health care — with mixed results. A new report from the Commonwealth Institute finds a racial divide in terms of who gets help. Michael Pope has the story.
Report: Virginia’s Schools More Segregated Than a Decade Ago
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on November 8, 2016
Credit: Karen Apricot / Flickr
A recent report found that Virginia’s public schools are more segregated today than ten years ago. According to the report, students who are poor, black, and Latino in Virginia are increasingly isolated — attending schools with other students like themselves. Mallory Noe-Payne reports.
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From NPR News- An unusually high number of whales are washing up on U.S. beaches February 5, 2023The unexpected deaths are hitting humpbacks and North Atlantic right whales on the East Coast and gray whales on the West Coast — populations that were already under watch.
- What Biden needs to do in this year's State of the Union speech February 5, 2023On Tuesday, Biden will deliver his State of the Union speech to a divided Congress — and a big audience at home. It's seen as an unofficial kick-off to his expected re-election campaign.
- Santos took office one month ago and his New York district says he's got to go February 5, 2023Congressman George Santos' constituents are furious and don't think he's doing the work to represent them. A recent poll finds most GOP voters want the scandal plagued Republican to resign.
- We asked for wishes, you answered: Send leaders into space, free electricity, dignity February 5, 2023Send leaders into space for perspective, tap solar power to offer electricity for all, make "dignity" a priority — those are some of the wishes readers have for 2023.
- It's nothing personal: On Wall Street, layoffs are a way of life February 5, 2023Big companies such as Amazon and Google have recently announced layoffs. In Wall Street, getting cut is always acknowledged as an ever-lurking prospect – but it still stings when it happen.
- An unusually high number of whales are washing up on U.S. beaches February 5, 2023
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- Truss: I was never given realistic chance to cut taxes February 5, 2023The ex-PM's comments are the first detailed remarks she has made since she was forced out of No 10.
- Nicola Bulley: Witness comes forward in search for missing mum February 5, 2023Police have traced a woman in a yellow coat who was walking on Garstang Road on 27 January.
- Wealthy UK family to apologise in Grenada over slave-owning past February 5, 2023The Trevelyan family, who owned more than 1,000 African slaves in the 19th Century, will also pay reparations.
- Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's ex-president, dies aged 79 February 5, 2023The former president, who seized power in a coup in 1999, survived numerous assassination attempts.
- Grammy Awards 2023: How to watch and who will win February 5, 2023Adele, Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar and Harry Styles are up for prizes at the 65th annual Grammys in LA.
- Truss: I was never given realistic chance to cut taxes February 5, 2023
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