by Michelle R. Martinelli | Jul 27, 2016 | Demographics, Politics, Topics
CLEVELAND — Just days before accepting the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump was polling historically low among women, with just 34% of them supporting him, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released Sunday. His female supporters are so...
by Siri Bulusu | Jun 23, 2016 | Business & Tech, Demographics, Topics
Washington — Elliott Clark was working a shift as a security guard in Kansas City when his daughter called to tell him his wife had broken her ankle in two places. She would need surgery to implant a metal plate and two screws in her foot. Over the next six...
by Kierra Gray | May 30, 2016 | Demographics
WASHINGTON — Black Americans’ educational equality has improved in the last year, but college graduation rates and access to high-quality elementary and secondary education remains a problem, according to a major survey by the National Urban League — which wants...
by Kierra Gray | May 18, 2016 | Demographics
WASHINGTON – Eight years into our first African-American presidency and amid an increasingly racialized election cycle, what can we say about the state of black America? According to a new report by the National Urban League, it’s mixed: African Americans have made...
by Siri Bulusu | May 17, 2016 | Demographics, Topics
WASHINGTON — New York state has the nation’s second smallest pay gap between men and women, with women making an average 13.8 percent less – and it gets worse the older they get, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said Tuesday. Maloney, the top Democrat on the...
by Kierra Gray | May 12, 2016 | Demographics
WASHINGTON — Asian American and Pacific Islanders are the latest minority groups to be displaced because of gentrification, disrupting their communities and often forcing them into overcrowded housing, according to a report issued Wednesday by two major advocacy...
