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{COVER P 6
Democrats take Republicans to Court
in Lawsuit
{local P 3 - 4
Syracuse, NY native crowned Miss
America
Former Syracuse Basketball Stars
Attend Local Clams for Cancer
Republicans Hand in the Towel for
Mayoral Race
NY towns rethink political lawn sign
rules
Syracuse breaks ground on new
practice facility
{State P 4 - 5
NY medical schools increase
enrollment
Small businesses temporarily sidestep
health law
{national P 8
Shooting of a Another Unarmed Black
Man Raises Ire in Charlotte
House votes to cut $4B a year from food
stamps
{OPINIONS/EDITORIAL P 8-11
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LOCAL
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) The new
Miss America will start the frst day of
her reign the same way most of her
predecessors did with a frolic in the
Atlantc City surf.
Nina Davuluri will also speak at a news
conference Monday at Boardwalk Hall,
where she became the frst contestant
of Indian heritage to win the crown
Sunday night.
The 24-year-old natve of Syracuse,
N.Y., wants to be a doctor and is
applying to medical school, with the
help of a $50,000 scholarship she won
as part of the pageant ttle.
She is the second consecutve Miss
New York to win the Miss America
crown, succeeding Mallory Hagan,
who was selected in January when
the pageant was stll held in Las Vegas.
The Miss America Organizaton will
compensate Hagan for her shortened
reign.
Moments afer winning, Davuluri
described how delighted she is that
the nearly century-old pageant sees
beauty and talent of all kinds.
Im so happy this organizaton has
embraced diversity, she said in her
frst news conference afer winning
the crown. Im thankful there are
children watching at home who can
fnally relate to a new Miss America.
Davuluris pageant platorm was
celebratng diversity through cultural
competency. Her talent routne was a
Bollywood fusion dance.
Davuluris victory led to some negatve
comments on Twiter from users upset
that someone of Indian heritage had
won the pageant. She brushed those
aside.
I have to rise above that, she said.
I always viewed myself as frst and
foremost American.
Her grandmother told The Associated
Press that she cried when she saw the
news on television.
I am very, very, happy for the girl. It
was her dream and it was fulflled,
89-year-old Vege Koteshwaramma
said by phone from her home in the
city of Vijaywada, in the southern
Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
She said there are numerous doctors
in the family, both in the U.S. and India,
and that if her granddaughter wants to
become one, I am sure she will do it.
Asked about her granddaughter
appearing in a bikini, given the
conservatve attudes about such
things in India, Koteshwaramma said:
I havent seen any such thing. This
must be all part of the competton.
Davuluri had planned to go to the scene
of a devastatng boardwalk fre in the
New Jersey communites of Seaside
Park and Seaside Heights on Monday
afernoon. But pageant ofcials
canceled that visit afer learning that
Gov. Chris Christe was making cabinet
ofcials available at that same tme to
business owners victmized by the fre.
Davuluri will visit at an unscheduled
future date, pageant ofcials said.
Syracuse, NY native
crowned Miss America
Nina Davuluri
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LOCAL
Former Syracuse Basketball Stars Attend Local Clams for Cancer
By Delani Weaver
Three of the greatest former Syracuse
University basketball stars of all tme
will come together for the 2nd annual
Clams for Cancer beneft event on
Sunday 22. The event will be held
at the Spinning Wheel restaurant in
North Syracuse.
Syracuse star alumni, Dwayne the
Pearl Washington, Billy Owens
and Lawrence Moten will be taking
pictures, signing autographs and
mingling with local residents to raise
funds for the Jonathan Cancer Fund.
Fans and supporters can enjoy a
full clambake from 1 to 6 p.m. with
steamed and raw clams, side dishes,
desserts, draf beer and soda. There
will be live music by the band Code
Red, featuring Gary Dunes. There will
also be rafes, prizes, games and a
silent aucton.
The Jonathan Cancer Fund, which was
established in 1993, is a locally-based
charity that helps families of children
diagnosed with cancer.
Tickets for the Clams for Cancer event
cost $40 per person.
Republicans Hand in the Towel for Mayoral Race
By Delani Weaver
It seems as though Democrat
Stephanie Miner was handed the
mayoral seat by the GOP Monday
when Tom Dadey announced there will
be no Republican candidate running
against her in November.
The GOP had been using every
strategy they could to fnd someone
to run for the seat, from Dadey placing
his own name into the pot, then being
disqualifed due to moving outside the
city of Syracuse, to turning to atorney
Kevin Kuehner, who made it clear he
had no intentons of running for mayor.
Each atempt has been unsuccessful.
Rumors that Pat Hogan, who challenged
Miner in the Democratc primary, was
going to run on the Republican tcket
if he lost to Miner were setled in a
statement from Hogan.
Shortly afer last Tuesdays Democratc
primary, I personally decided that I
was not interested in acceptng the
Republican line to challenge Stephanie
Miner in November. At the end of the
day, I am a proud life-long Democrat.
I am disappointed that the people of
Syracuse will not have a choice for
mayor this November, he said.
Dadey said there are two reasons why
there will be no Republican candidate
for the frst tme in almost 100 years.
First, Democratc voters dominate the
city of Syracuse, making it difcult for
someone to step up and run on the
Republican tcket. Second, with the
challenges facing Syracuse including,
crime, educaton, collectve bargaining
agreements and consolidaton of
service with county government and
employment, Dadey said he doesnt
believe that anyone wants to make
those decisions because they are so
challenging.
Dadey said the focus for the party going
forward will be getng Republicans
into the seats in the city council.
Kevin Bot of the Green Party and
Conservatve Ian Hunter will be
running against Miner in November.
Dadey said he didnt consider Hunter
a viable candidate, and Hunter will
let everyone know why in the coming
weeks.
Stephanie Miner
NY towns rethink
political lawn sign rules
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) Some towns in
central New York are abandoning laws
restrictng the placement of politcal
lawn signs amid concerns that they
unconsttutonally restrict free speech.
The town board in Manlius voted
unanimously Wednesday to repeal
a law that had outlawed campaign
lawn signs except in a 37-day window
around electons.
The purpose of the law was to
make lawns cluter-free, but a town
resident and former dean of Syracuse
Universitys communicatons school,
David Rubin, fled a lawsuit in August
challenging the regulaton.
The local media reports that the village
board in nearby Skaneateles took note
and on Thursday scheduled their own
public hearing on a repeal of a similar
law.
Skaneateles Trustee James Lanning
says the village cant aford to fght a
lawsuit it is unlikely to win
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PUZZLES
Across
1. Shade of blonde
4. Street feet
8. Girls youth org. (abbr.)
11. Baseballs Durocher
12. Caspian Sea feeder
13. Tax month, for short
14. Philosophy
15. Str, with up
16. Congeal
17. Write extra
18. Bug blaster
19. Hawaiian welcomes
20. Bunked with
22. Deeply
23. Aussie lizard
25. Small fy
26. Letuce variety
28. With competence
30. Hardly a brainiac
33. Putdown
34. Go back into business
36. Novice
37. Style
39. Time of antcipaton
40. Card type
41. London gallery
42. Crows call
43. Civil aviaton controllers
44. Mideast ruler
45. Commercials
46. Winter contagion
47. Frilly
48. Islet
Down
1. Shrine
2. Experienced sailor (2 words)
3. Jinx
4. Britsh pounds for example
5. Gave Theseus a thread to escape
the labyrinth
6. Island east of Java
7. Go downhill
8. MO city
9. Gone bad
10. Pretentous
16. Clutch (2 words)
21. Where leters are delivered
24. Alphabet
25. Shrubs, trees, etc
27. Inconsistent
28. Creature
29. News ofce
31. Medicinal syrup
32. Renos state
33. Rod
35. Gossipy
37. Library catalog abbr.
38. Buddhist priest
STATE
Syracuse breaks
ground on new practice facility
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Syracuse
University has broken ground on a $13
million indoor practce facility for the
football team.
The 102,258-square-foot facility will be
built at Lower Coyne Field and is slated
to be fnished within nine months. The
feld inside the building will be named
afer John F. Phelan, who played for
Syracuse in 1940 and died in France
during World War II in 1944.
Board of Trustees Chairman Richard
L. Thompson and wife Jean, Phelans
daughter and a Syracuse graduate,
helped fund the facility. They donated
$1 million to the universitys athletc
programs in July when Syracuse
ofcially moved from the Big East to
the Atlantc Coast Conference.
Its a boost for the football team,
which has to share the Carrier Dome
with the basketball team when the
seasons overlap.
LOCAL
NY medical schools
increase enrollment
MICHAEL VIRTANEN
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New Yorks 16
medical schools have enrolled 120
more students this fall than last year,
including the frst classes in a pair
of three-year programs that allow
students to graduate faster and with
less debt.
More than half of the 2,424 new
medical students are state residents,
nearly half are women and 3 percent
are internatonal students, according
to Associated Medical Schools of New
York. Most programs last four years
with annual tuiton ranging from
$30,000 to $50,000.
Demand for physicians has intensifed
in New York due to its aging populaton,
rising costs, and state and federal
policy changes, associaton President
Jo Wiederhorn said.
A new state marketplace, established
in response to a federal mandate, is
expected to enroll 1.1 million more
New Yorkers in health insurance
programs over the next few years,
increasing the need for primary care
practtoners.
New York Universitys School of
Medicine has 162 new students,
including 16 in its new three-year
program who are all ofered acceptance
into an NYU Langone Medical Center
residency program. Their academic
year starts six weeks earlier and they
spend the summer between the frst
and second year on a fellowship.
With 168 new students, Columbia
University College of Physicians
and Surgeons has four who already
hold doctoral degrees in biomedical
sciences in a new three-year program.
Theyll have the same 18-month
preclinical training as the others and
16 months of clinical training. Their
fourth-year scholarly project will be
waived and theyll be encouraged to
pursue an abbreviated residency.
The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical
Educaton enrolled 74 students this
year for its seven-year program, all
state residents coming directly from
high school out of 705 applicants.
The City College of New York schools
frst fve years fulfll bachelors degree
requirements and the pre-clinical
medical school curriculum, followed
by two years of clinical training at a
collaboratng medical school.
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
enrolled 188 new students, 80 percent
from New York, while SUNY Upstate
Medical University enrolled 165, 90
percent of whom are state residents.
Albany Medical College reported 143
new medical students from nearly
9,000 applicants, while Icahn School
of Medicine at Mount Sinai enrolled
140 students out of more than 5,000
applicants.
Other schools and enrollments for
their Class of 2017 were Albert
Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva
University, 183 students; Hofstra
North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine,
80 students; New York Insttute of
Technology College of Osteopathic
Medicine, 315; New York Medical
College, 200; University of Rochester
School of Medicine, 102; Stony Brook
University School of Medicine, 124;
School of Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences at the University at Bufalo,
144; Touro College of Osteopathic
Medicine, 135; and Weill Cornell
Medical College, 101 students.
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COVER
By Hazel Trice Edney
(TriceEdneyWire.com) -The
Congressional Black Caucus
Foundaton, kicking of its Annual
Legislatve Conference (ALC) with the
theme, It Starts With You, this week
aimed to illustrate that theme through
economic acton.
The organizaton deposited $5
million into fve Black-owned banks,
contnuing a natonal movement,
fueled by the Natonal Bankers
Associaton, to reinvest in the
community by supportng Black and
minority-owned banks.
Our $5 million investment is part
of a new efort at the Foundaton to
strengthen the economy and Black
communites. We saw a need and an
opportunity to support much needed
progress in economic recovery in
African-American communites and
we seized it, said CBCF President/
CEO Shuanise Washington at a
press conference Tuesday. Todays
announcement is truly historic. This
investment is a critcal initatve
in lifing the economic fortunes
of African-American and minority
communites. Historically and stll
today, minority and women-owned
banks have been an important source
of credit and accessible fnancial
services. minority-owned banking
is key to reaching unbanked, under
banked and fnancially underserved
African-American communites.
Members of the Congressional Black
Caucus have long pointed to the
scourge of economic sufering and
unemployment in Black communites
as being among the chief issues across
America. Two years ago, CBC members
even held job fairs around the country,
watching as African-Americans lined
up around entre city blocks.
The Foundaton wants to set an
example. And we think the best way to
do that is not rhetorically but through
acton. And where we invest our
money, we think will lay a pathway for
others who want to follow and support
the work of the Foundaton, said CBCF
Chairman Chaka Fatah (D-Pa.). So
African-American fnancial insttutons
play an extraordinarily important role
in the eco-system of the development
of entrepreneurs in our communites;
also to help families seeking to send a
young person to college or a group of
people who are trying to organize and
develop a religious insttuton, a family
trying to buy a home a get a mortgage,
these insttutons are vital.
The fve Black banks receiving $1
million each are Industrial Bank in
Washington, D.C.; Liberty Bank & Trust
Company in New Orleans; Mechanics
& Farmers Bank in Durham; Seaway
Bank & Trust Company in Chicago and
City Natonal Bank of New Jersey in
Newark.
The movement to reinvest in Black
banks actually started in earnest last
year when the U. S. Black Chamber of
Commerce and the Washington, D.C.-
based Natonal Bankers Associaton,
led by President/CEO Michael Grant,
established a partnership to establish
the Chambers primary account with
Industrial.
Grant praised the CBCF for its historic
vision of a world free of economic
disparites datng back to greats like
Congressional Representatves Shirley
Chisholm, Parren Mitchell, Louis
Stokes, Charlie Rangel, John Conyers,
Ron Dellums, and others.
He quoted Dr. King, who, in his fnal
days fought for economic justce.
Dr. King was known for his prophecy.
In closing, I would like to predict the
future as well. If Black Americans will
signifcantly increase their support of
Black businesses, in a single generaton,
we would witness a drastc reducton
in unemployment, an increase in high
school graduaton rates and a decline
in crime in our neighborhoods, Grant
said.
The millions will go a long way in
helping individuals in communites
that have been hardest hit back
the economic downturn says Doyle
Mitchell, NBA chair and president/CEO
of Industrial Bank, which will turn 80
next year.
I have put the numbers together
and I see nowOver 50 percent
of our loans that we make go into
underserved communites and nearly
80 percent of our loans go right here in
Metropolitan Washington. According
to the FDIC, small banks, community
banks, make almost 50 percent of
all small business loans. We know
that small businesses in this country
employ nearly 80 percent of the all
the countrys individuals, Mitchell
says. Most of the communites
served by African-American banks are
urban and disadvantaged. And while
banks of other ethnic groups, Asians
and Hispanics do an excellent job at
that we do the same job right here in
African-American communites.
U. S. Black chamber President/CEO
Ron Busby stressed the need for strong
banks to undergird small businesses
that in turn fuel the economy.
When we surveyed our businesses,
the common concern they all had
was access to capital, said Busby,
who oversees 112 chambers in 24
states, representng over 240,000
Black-owned business natonwide.
If the number one concern for our
businesses is access then capital;
then the number one concern for
our businesses is unemployment.
There are roughly two million
African-American owned businesses
in America and approximately 14
percent unemployment for African-
Americans. The African-American
unemployment rate in this country is
almost double the natonal average. If
we can grow our frms to where they
have the capacity to employ just one
additonal employee, we can quell the
high unemployment that plagues our
community.
The benefts of Black-owned banks
when they are proftable and supported
within their own communites are
extensive, experts say.
Minority-Owned Banks and
specifcally Black-owned Banks - are a
foundatonal business in Americas
urban area, says Dr. Russ Kashian, an
economics professor at the University
of Wisconsin-Whitewater, who
partcipated in the press conference.
They serve several key roles. They
provide banking services to areas
that are ofen barren of any other
mainstream banking services. They
atract monies into the community
through reasonably aggressive interest
rates on CDs. They are a source of
valuable jobs with ladders for the
neighborhood - these jobs for tellers,
loan ofcers, mortgage originators
ofer family wages and the opportunity
for training and skill enrichment.
President Obama has made it clear
that support for the middle class
is a key strategy to strengthen the
economy. But, Washington says she
hopes the move to strengthen Black
banks will also draw the traditonally
unbanked poor into the mainstream
economy.
Fatah says he hopes other insttutons
will take heed to the example that has
been set.
The pillars of power have to be both
politcal and economic, he said. And
we are leaning forward to say that
were going to make an investment
and we expect that others who are our
allies and our friends and support the
foundaton will follow likewise.
CBCF President/CEO Shuanise Washington announce historic deposit in Black-owned banks. In
the back ground, Natonal Bankers Associaton President President Michael Grant and CBCF
Chairman Chaka Fatah look on. PHOTO: Rodney L. Minor/BRTV
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STATE
Small businesses temporarily sidestep health law
NEW YORK (AP) _ Many small
businesses have found a way to
temporarily sidestep some of the
headaches brought on by the new
health care law.
One of them is Huber Capital
Management. The asset management
frm is renewing its health insurance
policy early, in 2013 instead of
2014. By renewing its policy this
year, the company doesnt have to
buy insurance that conforms to the
requirements of the new health care
law. And it wont have the surge in
premium rates expected under the
Afordable Care Act.
``We can just push this whole thing
of and defer it for essentally one
year, says Gary Thomas, chief
operatng ofcer of El Segundo, Calif.-
based Huber Capital, which has nine
employees covered by insurance.
The Obama administraton says it
wont force employers with at least
50 workers to comply with the ACA
untl 2015, but the law will stll afect
businesses. The administraton
has delayed only the paperwork
requirements for those companies.
But any company that ofers health
insurance, including very small
businesses, will stll have to contend
with the rest of the law startng Jan.
1. And that includes new insurance
policies with government-mandated
types of coverage.
Many insurance companies are raising
their premiums sharply because they
dont know yet how many people
will be covered by insurance. Its
expected that many young people
who are healthy wont want to pay for
insurance, or sign up for it. Authors
of the ACA are countng on a larger
pool of insured people to bring down
overall insurance costs, but if people
forgo coverage, that may not happen.
Thomas got the idea to renew early
from Huber Capitals health insurance
broker, who said the frm would
likely have an 8 percent increase in
premiums if it did renew in 2013,
compared to an estmated 30 percent
under a policy that complies with the
ACA. The idea is also appealing to
many companies because they can
put of dealing with the laws complex
requirements. For example, companies
with 50 or more workers must do
calculatons to determine whether
theyre providing adequate insurance
coverage. If they have employees who
work less than 40 hours, owners need
to determine whether those workers
must be covered. By renewing in 2013,
owners will get more tme to educate
themselves about the law.
``Some of the things that might be
guesswork or estmates will be more
of a known quantty than they are
today, Thomas says.
Quantum Networks, an online seller
of high-tech items, is also renewing
on Dec. 1. Its broker says its premiums
may be unchanged from this year
under a renewed policy.
``We want to drag this on as long as
possible, says Bita Goldman, vice
president for operatons. ``For a small
company like ours, every litle bit
helps.
Quantum Networks, based in New
York, has 24 stafers. Health insurance
accounts for about 15 percent of its
expenses. CEO Ari Zoldan wants extra
tme to understand the impact of the
law on his company.
``With the health ecosystem as
complicated as it is, even the brightest
of the brightest dont understand this,
he says. ``Over the next year, were
going to educate ourselves, were
going to shop around, were going to
speak to other business owners and
ask, `what are you guys going to do?
Anthony Lopez, a small business
specialist at online broker
eHealthInsurance, says half the clients
hes spoken with are renewing early.
He expects more afer Oct. 1, when
rates for 2014 are published.
But Lopez warns that insurance
companies have diferent expiraton
dates for the opton to renew their
policies this year. While some allow
small businesses to decide as late as
December, others have earlier cutof
dates. But businesses that miss the
deadline might stll get insurance at
2013 rates if they switch to another
carrier.
Higher Logic, a social media and
mobile sofware company based in
Arlington, Va., faced the specter of
increasing insurance costs although
it doesnt have 50 workers yet. The
company is growing rapidly, having
hired 15 people this year. And its
45 stafers are scatered across 15
states, which makes buying health
insurance complicated because states
have diferent rules. President Andy
Steggles has moved up the renewal
date for the companys insurance from
Feb. 1.
``If we lock in now, well know we have
a 14 percent increase. If we hold of a
renewal tll Feb. 1, who knows what its
going to be? Steggles says. His broker
said she cant estmate the increase in
his premiums under the ACA, but she
gave him a range of 20 percent to 40
percent.
PURR-fect Solutons insurance
policy doesnt expire untl next May,
but general manager Chet Boxley
is renewing fve months early, in
December, because the premiums
will stay the same. He hopes to set
aside money to pay for future rate
hikes for the four employees of his
Salt Lake City-based company, which
manufactures cat liter.
Boxley faced a 20 percent to 25 percent
rate increase under the ACA.
``When I heard `no increase, I was
prety stoked to hear that. It was a no-
brainer _ we said OK.
NY electric customers will get credit of up to $3
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ New York electric
customers will be getng a small credit
on an upcoming bill.
The state Public Service Commission
on Thursday approved a one-tme
credit to electricity bills of up to $3,
depending on usage.
Regulators say the credit stems from a
2012 setlement that included a $110
million civil penalty on Constellaton
Energy Commodites Group on
grounds that the power producer
manipulated wholesale energy sales in
three regional markets, including New
York. The Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission determined that $78
million be used within New Yorks
wholesale electricity market.
The state commission approved paying
$48 million to customers of New Yorks
six investor-owned utlites, the New
York Power Authority and the Long
Island Power Authority.
The credit will be passed on afer
utlites receive the funds.
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NATIONAL
Shooting of a Another Unarmed Black Man Raises Ire in Charlotte
(TriceEdneyWire.com) Yet another
police killing of an unarmed Black
man has sparked outrage in Charlote,
N.C. This tme, a former college foot
ball player, 24, was shot 10 tmes by
a police ofcer while he sought help
following a car accident.
According to widespread reports,
Jonathan Ferrell was shot Saturday,
Sept. 14, by a White Charlote police
Ofcer Randall Kerrick. Kerrick was
arrested and was arraigned Tuesday
on volunteer manslaughter charges.
Reports say Kerrick fred his weapon
12 tmes as Ferrell ran toward
him, apparently seeking help afer
involvement in a car accident nearby.
Ferrell had reportedly stopped at the
home of woman, whod opened the
door around 2:30 a.m. thinking he was
her husband; then called 911 when
she saw he was a stranger.
The scourge of police and law
enforcement violence against
unarmed Black males has been a
consistent problem in America. Civil
rights leaders have pushed for greater
citzen oversight of police among
remedies that have been tried in some
cites across the country.
Ferrell was a former football player for
Florida A&M University. He reportedly
moved to Charlote last year to be with
his fance.
Any day in this country, an African-
American man can be killed for
no reason by the people who are
supposed to be protectng him, Kojo
Nantambu, president of the Charlote
chapter of the Natonal Associaton for
the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP), said at a press conference
Monday, according to the Associated
Press. Thats not an anomaly in this
country. Theyre never given the
beneft of the doubt, and that has to
change.
Jonathan Ferrell, 24, was shot 10 times by
police Saturday morning while looking for
help after a car crash.
House votes to cut $4B a year from food stamps
WASHINGTON (AP) _ The House
has voted to cut nearly $4 billion a
year from food stamps, a 5 percent
reducton to the natons main feeding
program used by more than 1 in 7
Americans.
The 217-210 vote was a win for
conservatves afer Democrats
united in oppositon and some GOP
moderates said the cut was too high.
Fifeen Republicans voted against the
measure.
The bills savings would be achieved by
allowing states to put broad new work
requirements in place for many food
stamp recipients and to test applicants
for drugs. The bill also would end
government waivers that have
allowed able-bodied adults without
dependents to receive food stamps
indefnitely.
House conservatves, led by Majority
Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., have said the
almost $80 billion-a-year program has
become bloated. More than 47 million
Americans are now on food stamps,
and the programs cost more than
doubled in the last fve years as the
economy struggled through the Great
Recession. Democrats said the rise in
the rolls during tough economic tmes
showed the program was doing its job.
Finding a compromise _ and the votes
_ to scale back the feeding program
has been difcult. The conservatves
have insisted on larger cuts, Democrats
opposed any cuts and some moderate
Republicans from areas with high food
stamp usage have been wary of eforts
to slim the program. The White House
has threatened to veto the bill.
House leaders were stll shoring up
votes on the bill just hours before
the vote. To make their case, the
Republican leaders emphasized that
the bill targets able-bodied adults who
dont have dependents. And they say
the broader work requirements in the
bill are similar to the 1996 welfare law
that led to a decline in people receiving
that government assistance.
``This bill is designed to give people a
hand when they need it most, Cantor
said on the foor just before the bill
passed. ``And most people dont
choose to be on food stamps. Most
people want a job ... They want what
we want.
The new work requirements proposed
in the bill would allow states to require
20 hours of work actvites per week
from any able-bodied adult with a
child over age 1 if that person has
child care available. The requirements
would be applicable to all parents
whose children are over age 6 and
atending school.
The legislaton is the Houses efort
to fnish work on a wide-ranging farm
bill, which has historically included
both farm programs and food stamps.
The House Agriculture Commitee
approved a combined bill earlier this
year, but it was defeated on the foor
in June afer conservatves revolted,
saying the cuts to food stamps werent
high enough. That bill included around
$2 billion in cuts annually.
Afer the farm bill defeat, Republican
leaders split the legislaton in two and
passed a bill in July that included only
farm programs. They promised the
food stamp bill would come later, with
deeper cuts.
In order to negotate the bill with the
Senate, Republicans said Thursday
that one more step is needed _ the
House will have to hold a procedural
vote to allow both the farm and food
stamp bills to go to a House-Senate
conference together. It is unclear
whether Republicans who pushed
to split the two bills will oppose that
efort.
Once the bills get to that conference,
negotatons with the Senate will not
be an easy task. A Senate farm bill
passed in June would only make a
tenth of the cuts to food stamps, or
$400 million, and the White House has
issued a veto threat against the House
bill. The two chambers will also have
to agree on policy for farm subsidies
amid disputes between diferent
crops.
Every Democrat votng on Thursday
opposed the bill. Many took to the
foor with emotonal appeals.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi,
D-Calif., said the bill is a ``full assault
on the health and economic security
of millions of families. Texas Rep.
Lloyd Dogget called it the ``let them
starve bill.
White House spokesman Jay Carney
said Thursday that House Republicans
are atemptng to ``literally take
food out of the mouths of hungry
Americans in order to, again, achieve
some ideological goal.
The Congressional Budget Ofce says
that if the bill were enacted, as many
as 3.8 million people could lose their
benefts in 2014.
Around 1.7 million of those would be
the able-bodied adults who would
be subject to work requirements
afer three months of receiving food
stamps. The 1996 welfare law put
that limit into law, but most every
state has been allowed to waive that
requirement since the Great Recession
began in 2008.
The other 2.1 million would lose
benefts because the bill would
largely eliminate so-called categorical
eligibility, a method used by
many states that allows people to
automatcally qualify for food stamps
if they already receive other benefts.
Some of those people who qualify that
way do not meet current SNAP income
and asset tests.
The Census Bureau reported this
week that just over half of those who
received food stamps were below
poverty and 44 percent had one or
more people with a disability.
By state, Oregon led the naton in food
stamp use at 20.1 percent, or 1 in 5,
due in part to generous state provisions
that expand food stamp eligibility to
families. Oregon was followed by more
rural or more economically hard-hit
states, including Mississippi, Kentucky,
Maine, Michigan and Tennessee.
Wyoming had the fewest households
on food stamps, at 7 percent.
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necessarily represent the position or viewpoint of MRMG or CNY Vision
The AFL-CIO
recently held
its quadrennial
const i t ut i onal
conventon in
Los Angeles.
The conventon
had commitees
that included
many nonunion
partners to
create an agenda
directng the
AFL-CIO toward a movement that
can include the voices of all working
people-those covered by collectve
bargaining agreements, those who are
retred, those who are unemployed
and those who work without the
beneft of a union contract. Shared
prosperity, the goal of the AFL-CIO,
must be inclusive.
The challenge is huge. The U.S. Bureau
of Labor Statstcs (BLS) shows a labor
market that isnt growing fast enough
to provide shared prosperity. The
payroll numbers that are released
at the beginning of the month are
preliminary. Additonal data becomes
available later. So, the payroll numbers
are adjusted later. Recently, the
preliminary numbers for June and
July were both adjusted-downward.
June was knocked down from 188,000
to 172,000, and July went from
162,000 to 104,000. That means the
preliminary number for August of
169,000 needs to be interpreted with
some cauton. So, despite promising
news of acceleratng job growth that
even reached 332,000 jobs in February;
since April job growth is deceleratng.
Slow job creaton has contnued the
trend that started in the spring of
2009 of unemployed workers being
more likely to exit unemployment by
dropping out of the labor force than
fnding a job. And, that was clear in
the household survey released by
the BLS showing the unemployment
rate fell because of a drop in the size
of the labor force-those people who
are employed or actvely searching
for work. And, among the employed,
a discouraging sign is the growth of
workers who could only fnd part-tme
work. In August, 2.7 million workers
were in part-tme jobs because they
could not fnd full-tme work, up
from 1.1 million back during the labor
markets last peak in January 2008.
The frustraton of workers can be found
in their declining job mobility. The BLS
recently reported that the median
tenure of workers with their employer
contnues to trend up and is now at 4.6
years. In part, this refects the aging of
the workforce-older workers tend to
stay put with their employer, but it also
refects data in the BLS Job Opening
and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS)
showing that employed workers are
not switching jobs. Those shifs also
help create openings for other workers
to fll; fewer shifs mean fewer job
openings for unemployed workers to
fll. In July there were 3.1 unemployed
workers to each job opening, a slight
uptck from June. Movement among
employed workers shows a heated
labor market, it helps workers shif to
higher paying jobs, and it shows that
frms are actvely expanding trying to
fnd highly productve workers. So, this
helps to explain the low pressure on
wage growth in the economy now.
And the quality of the jobs created has
also been discouraging. Manufacturing,
which helped to get the growth in jobs
launched, has added only a net of
20,000 jobs of the 2.2 million created
since August. On the other hand, retail
trade has added 392,000 jobs and
fast-food and restaurants has added
353,000 jobs. These are industries
with lots of part-tme and low-wage
positons. The realizaton that these
jobs may signify the new normal has
made workers in these industries start
to fght back. On Aug. 29, they staged
walk outs demanding decent pay.
Roughly 30 million workers languish
at low pay while Congress fails to act
on legislaton that would raise the
minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.
The AFL-CIO Conventon heard
from Economics Nobel Laureate
Joseph Stglitz that the problem the
U.S. economy faces is simple: low
aggregate demand. He said we could
boost demand by raising wages and
government investment. The current
fxaton of Washington on debt and
defcits is a harmful divergence of
tme and politcal space from getng
job growth back up and wages up.
The gap between what the naton
could produce at full-employment and
where we are now with 58.6 percent
of Americans employed, below the
62.9 percent during the peak in
January 2008 and the 64.7 percent of
April 2000, is the defcit policy must
focus on closing.
The AFL-CIO Conventon passed
resolutons to create a new set of
actons so the labor movement can
respond to this environment where
all workers are under atack-from
negligence of their key issues of more
jobs and higher pay to their rights
at work and their rights to organize.
Clearly the movement has to broaden
itself to include the un-organized
because only if workers are united can
new policies be put in place to change
the situaton.
Americans are not sufering from
the laws of economics; American
inequality is exceptonal. It is not
possible to explain the level of
American inequality using the theories
of market supply and demand;
the same forces of globalizaton
and technological change afect all
countries. But, American policies are
unique. Low minimum wages, the
lack of collectve bargaining in wage
setng and corporate governance that
lets corporate CEO pay skyrocket are
uniquely American.
The current level of inequality in
the U.S. is bad economics. It is the
creaton of raw greed-market power,
not market forces. The shrinking share
of income for the botom 99 percent
is not a system that is healthy. And, it
is not sustainable. Unless the defcit of
jobs and wage incomes is addressed,
it will fuel another downturn in
the economy. If we understand the
cause was inequality we can fx this
economy, but if we contnue to create
more inequality we will break the
economy. Shared prosperity, not this
weak recovery, is what will get us to
sustainable growth.
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This fall, as
college campuses
open their doors
to the bustle
of students,
one historically
Black insttuton
will remain
silent. In the old
colonial town of
Lawrencevi l l e,
Va., Saint Pauls
College has shut
its doors afer more than a century
of operaton. The college had fallen
on hard tmes in recent years, and it
serves as a canary in the coal mine for
other historically Black colleges and
universites that face an uncertain
economic future.
Saint Pauls College was founded
in 1888 by my grandfathers uncle,
James Solomon Russell. A former
slave who died an archdeacon and
university principal-emeritus, Russell
understood the transformatve power
of educaton. He opened Saint Pauls
Normal and Industrial School with
fewer than a dozen students and a
mandate to train teachers. Over the
next 125 years, the school became
a hub for educaton training in the
region, producing many teachers in
Virginia and neighboring states.
Many of the students who atended
Saint Pauls over the years were the
frst in their family to atend college.
The vast majority came from poor
families. The school even ofered a
child-care program for single parents
enrolled in classes. Like so many other
HBCUs in underserved communites,
Saint Pauls was a lifeline.
The recent recession hit Saint Pauls
especially hard. Like many HBCUs, the
college lacked a wealthy donor base
or strong endowment that could help
it weather the fnancial storm. Faced
with mountng bills, college ofcials
closed the child-care program, laid of
top teachers, and watched enrollment
numbers fall back to near-1888 levels.
Last fall, St. Pauls opened its fnal
academic year with just over 100
students before shutng its doors for
good.
Saint Pauls demise should serve as a
wake-up call to those who care about
the future of HBCUs. For more than
175 years, the insttutons have played
a crucial role in African-American
advancement. HBCUs make up just 3
percent of the natons colleges and
universites, but produce 50 percent
of Black public school teachers, 80
percent of Black judges and 40 percent
of baccalaureate degrees awarded to
Black students in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematcs, the
STEM felds. Martn Luther King Jr.
was a Morehouse man; Thurgood
Marshall studied at Lincoln University
and Howard University School of Law;
Oprah Winfrey atended Tennessee
State University.
However, even the wealthier HBCUs
are struggling fnancially. Morehouse
College was recently forced to furlough
some of its staf, and Clark Atlanta
and Hampton Universites have both
announced budget shortages. This
June, a Howard University trustee,
Renee Higginbotham-Brooks, wrote
an alarming leter about Howards
genuine fnancial trouble.
The recession only partly explains
this crisis. Part of the reason is
politcal. In 2011 the Department of
Educaton tghtened the standards for
its Parent PLUS federal loan program.
The program has historically been an
important service for parents of HBCU
students, who are more likely to need
fnancial support.
The new standards have had a
devastatng efect. In the 2012-13
school year alone, the volume of
Parent PLUS loans to HBCU families
dropped by 36 percent, according to
an analysis by The Washington Post.
Parents of 28,000 HBCU students
were initally denied loans under the
stricter standards, causing HBCUs as a
whole to lose $150-million in expected
revenue.
This slow bleed will contnue as
long as the tghter standards are in
place. As the president of the UNCF,
Michael Lomax, has recommended,
the Department of Educaton should
fnd a way to preserve fnancial aid
instead of undercutng the students
it is supposed to serve. Meanwhile,
it is encouraging to see that the
department is allowing families with
small-scale debt-Black, White, or
otherwise-to become eligible for PLUS
loans through an appeals process.
The loan program is only one part
of the soluton, however. Congress
should also increase funds for Pell
Grants, fnancial subsidies for low-
income students that do not have to
be repaid. According to a UNCF study,
42 percent of all HBCU students come
from families with incomes lower than
$25,000. More than half qualify for
Pell Grants. HBCUs are only as strong
as their students, and their students
ofen need signifcant fnancial
support. An expansion of the Pell Grant
program will help support historically
Black colleges and, for many frst-
generaton college students, help
disrupt generatons of family poverty.
Historically Black colleges and
universites like Saint Pauls College are
an integral part of African-American
history, and they need to remain an
integral part of our countrys future.
As we write Saint Pauls obituary,
we must not allow other colleges to
sufer a similar fate. Let us recommit
to James Solomon Russells vision,
which mirrors the larger vision of the
HBCU community: a school for every
student, a lifeline for every dream.
OP/ED
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Mission of St. Pauls College
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