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Today sees the beta-launch of the World Bank’s new Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP), an online analysis tool that provides global, regional, and country-level poverty estimates.

Afraid of crime. in communities of color, i mean, its not that crime is not an issue. i think part of what youre seeing in the de blasio race in particular is so are jobs and the economy and just a fair shot. and i think that part of what bill represented for people was somebody who actually in a very real way given his family understands exactly how that feels. >> bill de blasio ran, john, explicitly on this inequality platform. now he set himself up for something very difficult. which is conve...

Feels. >> bill de blasio ran, john, explicitly on this inequality platform. now he set himself up for something very difficult. which is converting that to governance in a city where people watch new york city politics from the outside says is controlled by the 1% as any place -- wall street is here. and they will let you know they are here. >> people are literally struggling to get by and then other people are living in the penthouse lifestyle. to begin to address that in a

the former illinois governor is going to have an opportunity to speak before the federal judge announces the sentence. prosecutors want blagojevich to get at least 15 years for his conviction on corruption charges. a 19-year-old man says that jerry sandusky gave him whiskey when he was 12, then sexually abused him. sanduskys latest accuser claims it happened once inside an office inside the penn state football building. the man says he was a member of the second mile. that is sandusk...