Nearly 160,000 apartments at private properties with federal contracts have failed at least one inspection since 1999. Violations range from electrical hazards to rampant vermin to piles of garbage.In 2015 alone, families in subsidized housing reported at least 155,000 more cases of childhood asthma than expected.The GAO told Congress that HUD's inspection processes are outdated and need a thorough overhaul. Natchez, Miss. - In this city known for pre-Civil War mansions, a young mother shared a government-funded apartment with her three small children and a legion of cockroaches. The bugs lurked in the medicine cabinet, under the refrigerator, behind a picture on the wall. The mother nudged a bedroom dresser and more roaches skittered away as her 2-year-old son stomped on them. It was home, sweet home for Destiny Johnson and her kids -- until she got fed up and moved out last month. Inspectors had cited the apartment complex with urgent health and safety violations for the past … [Read more...] about The crumbling state of federally funded housing for the poor
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Another Week of GW News, June 23, 2013
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Mid-Summer's Day Edition June 23, 2013 Chuckles, Solstice, COP19+, Post-G8, UK Meeting, Indian Monsoon Sumatran Smog, European Flood, World Bank, Cook Fukushima: Note, News, Policies Melting Arctic, Arctic Birds, Methane, Antarctica Food: Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather, Temperatures GHGs, Aerosols, Clouds, Paleoclimate, Oceans, Extinctions, Bees & CCD Impacts, Forests, Climate Refugees, Desertification, Tornadoes Wildfires, Corals, Acidification, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Floods & Droughts Mitigation, Cities, Biomimicry, Designed Endurance, Transportation Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Conservation, Adaptation Journals, Other Docs, Misc. Science, Models, Mees, … [Read more...] about Another Week of GW News, June 23, 2013
Meet 100 of Suffolk’s most inspirational women
PUBLISHED: 18:02 13 November 2018 | UPDATED: 20:07 13 November 2018 Megan Aldous Goldie Sayers , Team GB Javelin Thrower and one of Suffolk's 100 Inspiring Women speaking at the event Picture: SARAH LUCY BROWN Archant This is a list that Suffolk should be proud of - 100 women who are positive role models for future generations, women who have achieved success in a diverse range of fields from business, the arts, sport and education to the third sector.The list was put together by a panel of judges this summer after we asked readers for their nominations. From top left: Jenna Ackerley, Anne Beckett-Allen, Katie Bannister, Jane Basham, Dayle Bayliss, Shayra Begum, Nicola Beach, Adele Bellis and Professor Emma Bond Pictures: WENDY AIKEN PHOTOGRAPHY/EDF ENERGY/BARRY ELEY/PHILIP MYNOTT/SUFFOLK COUNTY COUCIL/UNIVERSITY OF SUFFOLKJenna Ackerley, Events Under Canvas: A Felixstowe girl originally, 38-year-old Jenna now lives in East Bergholt with her husband and … [Read more...] about Meet 100 of Suffolk’s most inspirational women
Universal Credit rollout ‘will cause riots in the streets’ as 3million more Brits to lose £50 a week on controversial new benefit system
UNIVERSAL CRISIS Ministers have promised that no one will lose out as more Brits are put on the controversial new benefits system from next summer ROLLING out Universal Credit to another three million families will cause riots in the streets, Gordon Brown has warned. The former PM called on Theresa May to abandon the flagship benefits shake up which is replacing several benefits with one monthly payment. Three million families are set to be rolled out onto Universal Credit next year – which will cos an average of around £50 each, research has suggested. Mr Brown wrote in the Daily Mirror today: “From next July when three million more families begin to be herded on to Universal Credit, our country will face the kind of chaos we have not seen since the days of the hated Poll Tax. “We face a summer of division and despair.” And he said that more and more children were at risk of slipping into poverty as a result. “Having served 50 years in public … [Read more...] about Universal Credit rollout ‘will cause riots in the streets’ as 3million more Brits to lose £50 a week on controversial new benefit system
For McCain, a life of courage, politics came down to 1 vote
Nancy Benac, Associated Press Updated 6:01 am CDT, Sunday, August 26, 2018 Now Playing: US Senator John McCain, war hero and presidential candidate died Saturday after battling brain cancer for more than a year. He was 81. McCain had discontinued medical treatment, his family said Friday. (Aug 25) Media: Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For John McCain, a lifetime of courage, contradictions and contrarianism came down to one vote, in the middle of the night, in the twilight of his career. The fate of President Donald Trump's long effort to repeal Barack Obama's health care law hung in the balance as a Senate roll call dragged on past 1 a.m. on a July night in 2017. Then came McCain — 80 years old, recently diagnosed with brain cancer, his face still scarred from surgery, striding with purpose toward the well of the Senate. The Arizona Republican raised his right arm, paused for dramatic effect and flashed a determined thumbs-down, drawing gasps … [Read more...] about For McCain, a life of courage, politics came down to 1 vote