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Census shows 1 in 2 people are poor or low-income

Census shows 1 in 2 people are poor or low-income

Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans - nearly 1 in 2 - have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income.

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CDC report reveals new info on frequency of sexual violence

A new report by the Centers for Disease Control provides first-of-its-kind data that may depict sexual violence more accurately than previous studies,
by Rupa Shenoy

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Why do Twin Cities people say home is 'Minnesota'?

Why do Twin Cities people say home is 'Minnesota'?

Here and around the country, 'Minneapolis-St. Paul' is falling out of use.
by Steve Berg

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Revisiting the Constitution

Revisiting the Constitution

The debate over the nature of the U.S. Constitution goes back to the framers. Jefferson thought it should be updated every few years, while John Adams considered it a sacred text. Into this debate comes Christopher Phillips, who's been asking people across the county to view themselves as framers of our founding document. With faith in our government at an all-time low, he says maybe it's time to make some changes.

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Surveillance Software: Where do we draw the line?

Surveillance Software: Where do we draw the line?

From individual identity theft to national repression of government dissidents to tracking terrorists, the use of computer surveillance equipment is fraught with political and ethical issues. How do we weigh the risks and benefits of computer surveillance equipment? And what legislation could help us monitor its use?

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Facebook's new suicide prevention efforts

Facebook's new suicide prevention efforts

Facebook just announced a new service aimed to help prevent suicide among its users. How does it work and is it likely to be more effective than their previous effort?
by John Moe

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N. Mpls. clergy call for winter foreclosure moratorium

Clergy and community leaders in north Minneapolis are calling on five major banks to halt home-mortgage foreclosures this winter.
by Laura Yuen

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Journalist Isabel Wilkerson on the Great Migration

Journalist Isabel Wilkerson on the Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, for her reporting on the Midwestern floods of 1993. She speaks about her new book, "The Warmth of Other Suns," about the migration of 6 million black Southerners who moved from to the North over a period of six decades beginning around 1915. Wilkerson spent 15 years researching the book and interviewed more than 1,200 people.

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