Black Economic Gains Reversed in Great Recession
Growing up black in the segregated 1960s, Deborah Goldring slept two to a bed, got evicted from apartment after apartment, and watched her stepfather climb utility poles to turn their disconnected lights back on. Yet Goldring pulled herself out of poverty and earned a middle-class life — until the Great Recession. First, Goldring's husband fell ill, and they drained savings to pay for nursing homes before he died. Then Goldring lost her executive assistant job in the Baltimore hospital where she had worked for 17 years. The cruelest blow was a letter from the bank, intending to foreclose on her home of almost three decades … To read the whole story click here 
Killingsworth Station Offers Green Homes with Down Payment Assistance
First-time homebuyers don't expect to find a home with a green roof, a solar-powered water heater and energy efficient appliances already installed. But that's precisely what's on offer in Portland at the new Killingsworth Station development at North Killingsworth and Interstate Avenue. Even better, the homes include financing help for first-time low-income buyers … To check the details click here
Racing Toward The Bottom
While a Department of Education program embraces "a race to the 
top", our nation's current stance toward our 14 million officially unemployed people represents nothing less than a race to the bottom. We are content to report, month after month, unemployment rates in excess of nine percent, to use questionable language to describe tepid performance, and to assuage ourselves with myths that the economy is in recovery because GDP growth is up. Imagine that one of our children came home from school with a report card that showed a drop from a C- to a D, and she reported her grades as "substantially unchanged" .… To read the whole story click here
End the War, Not Just the Surge
President Obama addressed the nation on June 22 to explain his strategy for troop withdrawal in Afghanistan. Of the 100,000 U.S. troops currently deployed there, the announced drawdown of 10,000 soldiers by year's end and another 23,000 by September 2012 does little to end the longest war in U.S. history. Under this plan, approximately 70,000 troops will remain in the country, roughly twice as many as when Mr. Obama took office in January 2009 … To read
all about it click here
VIDEO: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Over the past decade, the Harry Potter screen adaptations have proven to be just as popular as the best-selling series of children's books upon which they're based. The first seven grossed over $6 billion at the box-office, making it the most lucrative film franchise of all time even before the release of this worthy finale. The Skanner News Video: Trailer and premiere … To read the whole thing click here
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