Read Three: 4-13

Incarceration 
Missouri judges get penalty cost before sentencing

Housing
In 83 Million Eviction Records, a Sweeping and Intimate New Look at Housing in America

North Carolina 
New Report Highlights Need For Better Preparing NC Natives For Local Jobs

Read Three 4-10 Campus Food Issue

Students Donate Leftover Campus Food To People In Need

College students on a mission to donate leftover food

Swipe Out Hunger is working with 22 universities to help curb student hunger.

Food programs grow as Harvard cooks up new ideas

Read Three: 4-9

Good News 
U.S. Seizes Backpage.com, a Site Accused of Enabling Prostitution

North Carolina 
Why Is China Treating North Carolina Like the Developing World?

Incarceration 
In Billerica, Young Prisoners Give Freedom A Trial Run

Read Three 4-5

Food
The hidden crisis on college campuses: Many students don’t have enough to eat

Education
History isn't a 'useless' major. It teaches critical thinking, something America needs plenty more of

North Carolina
Durham County Launches a Safe-Syringe Program and Will Offer Free Narcan Kits to Combat the Opioid Epidemic

Read Three: 4-3

Education 
Oklahoma teachers are posting their crumbling textbooks online

World
The Country With The World's Worst Inequality Is ...

Opinion
Gun Culture Is My Culture. And I Fear for What It Has Become.

Read Two: 4-2

Incarceration 

North Carolina ends shackling of inmates during childbirth

Good News

Three schoolboys found suicidal man about to jump off bridge - they grabbed him and didn't let go

Read Three: 3-29

Poverty 
Child poverty rates in Buncombe still a 'major problem'

Environment 
Funding farmers to tackle climate change

Music
Habibi Fuses Farsi Lyrics With Western Riffs

Read Three: 3-27

Opinion
This bill could widen access to mental health care

Veterans
Military experience gives veterans an entrepreneurial edge

North Carolina 
Rural Counties Are Making a Comeback, Census Data Shows

Read Three: 3-26

North Carolina 
NC Towns And Cities Push For Expanded Broadband

Environment 
North Carolina Wind Farmer Likes It Just Fine

Veterans 
Opioids are addictive. What alternatives is the VA offering and are they effective?


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APRIL 7^TH - Second Annual Glenaire 5k Glenaire Continuing Care Retirement Community

APRIL 12^TH -American Red Cross Blood Drive 9 AM-4 PM Finch library

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Read Three: 3-19-18

North Carolina 
N.C. Child Health Report Card Gives the State "F" Grade for Child Poverty, But Highlights Other Health Gains

Poverty 
How Many Seniors Are Living in Poverty? National and State Estimates Under the Official and Supplemental Poverty Measures in 2016

Education 
‘Some unpleasant truths’ on race, poverty and opportunity revealed in CMS report

Read Three: 3-16

Economics 
A Princeton sociologist spent 8 years asking rural Americans why they’re so pissed off
Hint: it’s not about the economy.

Wake County
Wake says goodbye to blood drives during school, and gets a strong reaction

Opinion
Drive them to a march. Buy their gas. Whatever it takes, support all kids marching today

Read Three: 3-15

History
Meet the organizer who helped create the soundtrack for the Poor People's Campaign

Native American 
For Kelvin Sampson And North Carolina's Native Americans, The Fight Never Ends

Read 3.14: 3-14-18

Food
10 things I learned eating on $4.70 per day

Opinion
How Young Is Too Young for Protest? A National Gun-Violence Walkout Tests Schools

Education
National School Walkout: Students to protest gun violence, call for action one month after Parkland shooting

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Read Three: 3-13-18

Homelessness
What Will Happen to the People? Urban Renewal Yesterday and Gentrification Today

Good News 
Solana Beach blazing energy-alternative trail

Education 
What Is Education Good For?

Read Three: 3-12-18

Education 
Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming

Environment 
Does Solving Energy Poverty Help Solve Poverty? Not Quite.

Poverty
Marked For Life? 

Read 3-8-18

International Women's Day: Spain's workers in 'feminist strike'

Investment by women, and in them, is growing

Why You Should Wear Purple on International Women's Day

Record-breaking number of women run for office

International Women's Day by the numbers

Passage Home Easter Cookout

Read Three: 3-6-18

Good News! 

North Carolina students recognized as Newman Civic Fellows

Education 

How This Small Oklahoma Town is Improving Rural Connectivity: A Road Trip to Sallisaw

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New co-op aims to reduce costs of solar energy in the Roanoke region

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