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Census: Number of America's poorest poor climbs to record high

The ranks of America's poorest poor has climbed to a record high - 1 in 15 people - spread widely across metropolitan areas as the housing bust pushed many inner-city poor into suburbs and other outlying places and shriveled jobs and income.

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Allegations against Herman Cain bring renewed focus on sexual harassment

Allegations against Herman Cain bring renewed focus on sexual harassment

GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain is vigorously denying claims that he sexually harassed two women when he headed the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. Midmorning looks at how attitudes towards sexual harassment in the workplace and the political arena have changed over time.

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U of M offers new certification program for adoption professionals

U of M offers new certification program for adoption professionals

The University of Minnesota's Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare and the Department of Human Services today announced a new certification program to train social workers and mental health experts who work with adoptive families.
by Sasha Aslanian

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Alabama immigration battle recalls past civil rights turbulence

Alabama immigration battle recalls past civil rights turbulence

The first immigration case likely to be sorted out by the U.S. Supreme Court comes from Alabama, where the nation's strictest immigration law has resurrected ugly images from Alabama's days as the nation's battleground for civil rights a half-century ago.

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Midmorning LIVE CHAT: All the single ladies

Kerri Miller interviews Kate Bolick about her Atlantic article "All the Single Ladies," in which she argues that the marriage market has been upended as women's economic power has grown during a time of male joblessness and what she calls "a decline in men's life prospects."

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More 'single ladies' staying single

More 'single ladies' staying single

Kate Bolick's Atlantic cover story "All the Single Ladies," about the growing number of proud, never-married women, has gotten a lot of attention since its publication earlier this month. We talk to the author about her decision to stay single. We also talk to a skeptic of the "marriage market" theories.

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