Poverty in Syracuse: a portrait of urban hardship
A Syracuse study outlines concentrated poverty in black households led by single mothers in East Side housing, highlighting a growing urban underclass. The piece contrasts city trends with national patterns and notes that most welfare recipients in Onondaga County are white, challenging myths about race and poverty.
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Melody
Hilltop East and West
Filton
Syracuse
U.S
America
University of Chicago
Willam Julius Wilson
Chicago
Syracuse University
Seymore
Robert Sacks
New York
Onondaga County
Department of Social Services
North tied to secret Contra cash and arms deliveries
Robert W. Owen testified under immunity that Lt. Col. Oliver North arranged covert payments and weapons shipments to the Nicaraguan Contras in 1984 and 1985. The testimony came as Iran-Contra hearings moved to their second week, followed by White House personnel changes and McFarlane's remarks about presidential responsibility.
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Washington
Oliver North
Congress
National Security Council
Teslified
Robert W. Owen
North
Owen
Contra Teaders
Central America
White House
Johnathan Miller
Muller
National Security
Robert McFarlane
Presi
New national board to certify teachers across the United States
A national board will issue teaching certificates based on uniform standards, aiming to identify top teachers through classroom skill assessments and subject knowledge. The board, majority comprised of teachers, follows Carnegie Foundation plans and is under study at Stanford with voluntary national tests over a decade.
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Boston
Sant Diego
Carnegie Corporation
Stanford University
Dey Brothers Store Sold to Sibleys After 110 Years
Robert Dey, son of a Scottish miller who joined Dey Brothers in 1871, sees the Rochester department store absorbed by Sibley’s. Sibley’s may have helped launch Dey Brothers’ original business and the two long‑time rivals merge after more than a century. The story hints at prior mentoring ties and a long history of executive mobility between firms.
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Robert Dey
New York
Sibley, Lindsay and Carr
Rochester
Donald
Sibley's
Dey Brothers Department
Dey
Dey Brothers
Bhmain
Andrew Wolfe
Sibley
Lindsay
Carr
Andrew Town
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Toren Beasley
Knight-Ridder News Service
Dent Reagan
McFarlane
Reagan
White
Datars
Leo Tolstoy
Robert
Oakdale
Tom Dial
Donald Dey
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