Category: Minorities
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Landlord aims to evict Liberty City free clinic, food pantry after complaints about collapsed ceiling at their rental
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org A corporate landlord is trying to evict a Miami medical clinic, food pantry and community center that complained when a big chunk of their ceiling caved in.
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‘Invisible’ crime: Immigrant scams are big business in South Florida, but few crooks caught
By Joseph A. Mann Jr. FloridaBulldog.org Infamous as the setting for many cases of high-profile financial fraud and chicanery, South Florida is also home to a relatively unknown scam that targets the region’s large immigrant population, bilking many of them for thousands of dollars for “expert” immigration services that are never delivered, a Florida Bulldog…
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A modern day ‘Harvest of Shame’: Today’s blue collar temp laborers face abuses in Florida, elsewhere
By Michael Grabell ProPublica CRANBURY, N.J. – Half a century ago, the legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow came to this pancake-flat town in central New Jersey to document the plight of migrant farmworkers. But today, an old way of labor persists here. Temporary workers who migrate here daily on buses face face similar conditions.
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Comcast Foundation gives to minority groups likely to aid approval of Time Warner buyout
By Jason McLure Center for Public Integrity s Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. roll out a massive lobbying effort to win regulatory approval for the merger of the nation’s two largest cable companies, one key step for the companies will be garnering the support of prominent civil rights and minority groups.