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Lawmakers ponder rental assistance vouchers Proposed state housing assistance system would be modeled after federal Section 8 Housing Choice voucher program, which caps rent payment at 30% of monthly income Author: John Croman Updated: 8:36 PM CST February 5, 2021 ST PAUL, Minn — Minnesota legislators are considering a new approach to tackling the state's housing crisis, a problem brought into much sharper focus by the coronavirus pandemic. DFL lawmakers are pitching a rental assistance voucher system, modeled after the federal Section 8 Housing Choice Vouche...

Who is eligible to get a shot? The District is currently at the beginning of Phase 1b, as described in its coronavirus vaccination plan. That means D.C. is currently vaccinating frontline workers in health care settings; staff and residents in congregate care settings like nursing homes and homeless shelters; first responders; teachers and other K-12 education staff; and D.C. residents ages 65 and older. Article continues below If you have general questions or even concerns about the coronavirus vaccine, D.C. has information here about who should get vaccinated, how the different individual v...

Revered doctor steps down, accusing Seattle Children’s Hospital of racism After 20 years leading the Odessa Brown Children's Clinic, Dr. Ben Danielson resigned in protest in November. by Dr. Ben Danielson stands for a portrait last June. (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut) No one thing led Dr. Ben Danielson, the beloved medical director of the Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic, to leave his post of more than 20 years last month. Rather, it was a collection of moments that, when added together, gave him little faith that leadership at Seattle Children’s Hospital — of which Odessa Brown is a part...

He had model cities, he had work studies, he had job corps, education. the war in vietnam cut it short. there were some flaws in it. he once said we're going to crawl, walk, and run, we'll get this thing. we need to recommit to that. it's not a zero-sum game. poverty for us as a classless supposed society is one of the scourges on our system. >> reverend, is that a blind spot for this president that he is focused maybe too much on the middle class, not large on poverty? >> i think it's a blind spot on the congress. when you can't pass a jobs bill, when you can't deal with any of the economic i...