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Blogs are important, however, we must recognize that 85% of actual news reporting (interviewing, door knocking, rummaging through records etc.) are done by newspapers, that online freelance journalism cannot replace. Our newspapers are being threatened: by govnt, entertainment competition, cuts etc. We must not undermine their importance in questioning (non-opinionatedly) the status quo.

Poverty in other metropolitan areas

Access to Social Services: The Changing Urban Geography of Poverty and Service Provision
2004 Report by the Brookings Institution

The shifting geography of concentrated poverty, the change of government assistance from cash to services increases the importance of location of these services.

FULL REPORT:

http://www.brookings.edu/metro/pubs/20040816_allard.pdf

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