Archive for June, 2009
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Why Children in Poverty Repeat the Cycle
The hearts and minds of small children are delicate organs, and this is especially true in the case of babies born into poverty. Constant neediness eventually gets the better of the child, becoming meddlesome to the heart and mind. As the child g
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Troubled Teens Make Troubled Adults
My former friends from the poverty neighborhoods of east Nashville are now approaching or have already reached their senior years. From my conversations with them, it is clear that they deeply regret their behavior of the past. The person they
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Impoverished Teens Need Jobs
Impoverished teens need jobs. The unemployment rate for teenagers today is a whopping 23%. That is especially bad news for teens from poverty neighborhoods. When it comes to job interviews, the middle class children will have an advanta
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Child Poverty, A Life Story
How often do you see or hear something that brings back memories of your childhood? No doubt, the memories you invoke are soothing reminders of days gone by—a time when everything was a new experience and stress was not a big factor in your lif
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Child Poverty Affects All Americans
An article in New Blaze online titled, Suffer the Children, talks about the increasing rate of poverty in America. That article was written nearly three years ago. Today poverty rates are higher than at any time since the Great Depressio
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A Positive Attitude Trumps any Hardship
I think it’s fair to say that everyone starts out in life wanting some measure of success. It doesn't have to be about money. Perhaps it is family, or community service or any goal that you believe will deliver lifelong happiness. Success co
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Vegetable Gardens are Becoming the Latest Trend
This is an image of one of our vegetable gardens, taken at a time of the season when we are getting ready to transfer seedlings from our greenhouse to the garden. At the Wallace Ranchwe will have eight separate vegetable gardens for the spring.
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Will Things Get Better
Whenever I think about the fact that Wall Street collapsed, practically overnight, I can’t help but wonder,“How could this happen?” Anyone can make a mistake at any given point in time, but it defies logic that whole leadership teams, inc
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