September 25, 2009 -
ACORN, a community-based advocacy group for low- and moderate-income families, has been in the news in recent weeks thanks to an undercover video in which two employees in the organization's Baltimore office appear to offer unethical advice on home loans, tax evasion and disguising identities of underaged sex workers to two conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute.
September 25, 2009 -
By Marcelo Ballvé, New America Media
September 24, 2009 -
A new study uses post-Katrina data to examine the wide and stark disparities in the life expectancy, educational attainment, and incomes of African Americans and whites in Louisiana.
September 23, 2009 -
The FBI and state police are investigating the death of a U.S. Census worker whose body was found hanging from a tree near a cemetery in a remote part of Kentucky with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest.
September 23, 2009 -
In a landmark decision, a federal appeals court ruled this week that states trying to curb global warming can sue five electric utilities to force them to cut greenhouse gas pollution.