Landmark Dudley Square fitness center to close
After nearly 20 years providing fitness, health and wellness services in Boston's urban community, owner Brandy Cruthird has announced that Body By Brandy Fitness Center and Body By Brandy 4 Kidz will close its Dudley Square headquarters at the end of October. More »
Splash! introduces urban youth to water-based jobs
Fifty percent of current positions within the water-based profession will be vacated over the next five to 10 years due to retirement, said James Lambert, project manager of corporate and community education at Roxbury Community College (RCC). More »
States must expand dental care access for poor children
ATLANTA - As states wrangle with whether or not to pursue Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), they should look carefully at the serious implications for oral health, especially for poor and minority children if Medicaid services are not expanded as originally envisioned under the ACA. More »
US financial policies waging war on middle class
Editor's Note: U.S. Census data released this month revealed troubling poverty figures, with some 46 million Americans - including one in every five children - living below the poverty line. Donald Barlett and James Steele, award-winning journalists and authors of the new book, "Betrayal of the American Dream," warn such numbers will continue to rise if more is not done to curb policies hostile to America's middle class. More »
