Tag: Poverty

  • Tough Choices: Young, Poor and Creative in City Heights

    How do you decide what to do with your money when you have very little? In collaboration with KPBS and Speak City Heights, Marketplace Money’s Wealth and Poverty Desk looks at the tough choices faced by families living in poverty. City Heights is one of the poorest neighborhoods in San Diego. But kids there are…

  • Tough Choices: Rich and Poor San Diegans Take Stock of the American Dream

    By Tom Fudge How do you decide what to do with your money when you have very little? In collaboration with KPBS and Speak City Heights, Marketplace Money’s Wealth and Poverty Desk looks at the tough choices faced by families living in poverty. Listen to the report here. There’s more than one house on the gated property of…

  • Tweet City Heights: Residents Mark One-Year Anniversary of Police Officer’s Death

    By Megan Burks Residents Mark One-Year Anniversary of Police Officer’s Death This week last year City Heights residents came together to mourn the death of Mid-City Police Officer Jeremy Henwood. The officer, who was fatally shot Aug. 6, 2011, by Dejon White, captured the attention of the region and nation with one of his final…

  • More Hispanic Children Living in Poverty

    By Jessica Plautz A new report says more Hispanic children in the United States are living in poverty than any other ethnic group. The Pew Hispanic Center tracked child poverty rates from 1976 to 2010, and found that last year was the first in which the single largest group of poor children was not white.…

  • Tweet City Heights: With Poverty Rates Up, San Diegans Consider Future

    By Megan Burks What Do You Envision for San Diego? Our Greater San Diego Vision has been ramping up efforts to get San Diegans talking about their collective future. What do we want to see here in 50 years? The initiative, launched by the San Diego Foundation, included a series of workshops this week in…