Simpkins Leads Teen Parenting Program Growth in Edgefield
Ms Simpkins describes a local effort to help young girls develop parenting skills home management and employment know how. The Mental Health Association backed the project offering a year to establish the program and now seeks renovations to meet building codes and achieve occupancy by year end.
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Simpkins
Edgefield
Ms. Simpkins
Making a Difference in Aiken Community
The Aiken Standard profiles people and groups making a difference and invites nominations by writing Making a Difference at Aiken Standard PO Box 456 Aiken 29802.
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Aiken County
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Farm Aid aims for 50 000 at Williams-Brice Stadium
Farm Aid producer Steven DePaul toured Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia scouting seating and parking for Farm Aid 96 on October 12. He praised the venue as ideal for a large scale show and noted backstage space, hospitality rooms, and press areas. Promoters expect 50,000 fans and say tickets go on sale around September 1 with acts including Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Martina McBride, and Hootie and the Blowfish.
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Steven DePaul
Farm Aid
Hootie
Willie
Williams-Brice Stadium
Willie Nelson
Gamecocks
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University of Louisville
Kentucky
USC
Nelson
Neil Young
John Mellencamp
Martina McBride
Hootie and
the Blowfish
Poverty racial gaps noted in 1993 data analysis
A Census Bureau report analyzes poverty patterns in 1993 households, showing 38 percent of women headed homes were poor in an average month, with 46 percent poor at least two months and 17.2 percent chronically poor. Whites had lower poverty rates than Blacks and Hispanics, while half of poverty spells lasted 4.9 months or longer.
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Douglas Besharov
Census Bureau
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