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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Minimum Wage And Homelessness In America

Comments (2) | california housing partnership corporation, Capitalism, chris maxwell, fair labor standards act, federal poverty line, Homelessness, housing disparity, low income housing, lowering minimum wage, minimum wage, National, national housing trust fund, national low income housing coalition, poverty, raising minimum wage

Niki Hashemi
Staff Reporter

Homelessness is increasing, and not just for the unemployed.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

The Dark Side Of Development

Comments (3) | Corruption, Development, displaced people, ethiopia, forceful relocation, Independent Evaluation Group, indigeneous peoples, International, international monetary fund, Laos, loans, Nam Theun II Hydropower Project, poverty, violence, World bank

Syuzanna Petrosyan
Executive Producer

World Bank policies have concentrated wealth in the hands of those with power and resources.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Keeping Score: Social Cleansing For The Cup

Comments (56) | 2014 World Cup, Brazil, Brazilian government, Columnists, Copa do Mundo, evictions, favelas, fifa, keeping score, poverty, public transportation, rio de janeiro, Sanitation, Socioeconomic, World Cup

Georgia Soares
Columnist

The Brazilian government tries to solve its favela problem by sweeping it under the rug.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

South Los Angeles Health Resources Still In Critical Condition

Comments (0) | affordable health care act, covered california, Depression, diabetes, diseases, Health, Health, health care, health insurance, high cholesterol, hypertension, Los Angeles, medi-cal, Obama, poverty, South L.A., Umma Clinic, underserved population, West L.A.

Umma Clinic, one affordable health care resource in South L.A.

Shaleeka Powell
Staff Reporter

Find out South L.A.'s percentage of resources compared to West L.A.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

The Black Male: An Endangered Species?

Comments (1) | African American, American Dream, Arrests, black males, civil rights, crack-cocaine, drug dealers, Drugs, economic, economy, Education, Gun Violence, homicide, incarcerated, incarceration, institutions, jail, Los Angeles, minority, mlk, MLK Day, Opinion, police, Politicians, politics, poverty, prison industrial complex, promise, racial profiling, racism, school to prison pipeline, solid, USC, violence, Wealth, weapons, youth

Jacqueline Jackson
Contributor

Did Martin Luther King—and thousands of others—die in vain?

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Gambia Girl Defends Her Right To Education

Comments (0) | Africa, Child Fund, child marriage, children's rights, Education, father, gambia, Girl Effect, Girls, Malala Yousafzai, Nation and World, NGO, poverty, ramatoulie jallow, school, society, Taliban, tradition, violence, women's rights, young women

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Francesca Bessey
Executive Producer

WATCH: What's a nuisance for you is a dream for many.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Los Angeles Communities Designated As Promise Zones

Comments (2) | agriculture, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Collaboration, communities, Designated, East Hollywood, Eastside Neighborhood, Education, hollywood, housing, Kentucky Highlands, Koreatown, Los Angeles, mayor garcetti, National, neighborhoods, Pico Union, poverty, President Obama, Promise Zones, Secretary Arne Duncan, Secretary Shaun Donovan, Secretary Tom Vilsack, senator mitch mcconnell, State of the Union Address, west Philadelphia, Westlake

A view of Koreatown, which is part of the Los Angeles Promise Zone. (M. Johnson/Wiikimedia Commons via Creative Commons)

Max Schwartz
Senior Reporter

L.A. is one of the first five Promise Zones designated by Obama.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

11 Ways America Was Still Backwards In 2013

Comments (10) | A&E, abstinence, Afghanistan, bike lock, breadwinner, cdc, child custody, civil rights, Clery Act, college, Congress, consent, Duck Dynasty, ed snowden, Florida, fourth amendment, freedom of religion, gender, gender wage gap, George Zimmerman, government, hate crimes, healthcare, house of representatives, Ian Bayne, Iraq, keith alexander, law enforcement, marital rape, masculinity, maternity leave, men's rights, misogyny, mothers, national security agency, New York City, nsa, Occidental College, Opinion, phil robertson, Police Brutality, poverty, quotas, race, racial profiling, rape, rape culture, representation, Rosa Parks, same-sex marriage, san jose state university, second amendment, Senate, sex, sex education, sexual assault, Sexual Health, sexual violence, sexually active teens, shooting, single mothers, Stand Your Ground, STDs, stop-and-frisk, surveillance, suzanne venker, teen pregnancy, Three-Fifths, Title IX, Todd Akin, Trayvon Martin, trial, unplanned pregnancy, USC

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Francesca Bessey
Senior Opinion Editor

America, ya done screwed up.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

To Heal A Backbone: Thanksgiving In Skid Row

Comments (107) | Daisy Franklin, Daniel Rodriguez, Downtown, God, harry ward, Homelessness, Los Angeles, Los Angeles and Region, new image, poverty, Ramona Trevino, Religion, Skid Row, thanksgiving, the los angeles mission, wells fargo

Sonia (left) and Yvette Garcia wait outside the gates of The L.A. Mission. (Photo by Aaron Liu/Neon Tommy)

Aaron Liu
Senior Staff Reporter

Thousands gathered at the L.A. Mission on Wednesday for Thanksgiving.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

L.A.'s Homeless: Making The Invisible Visible

Comments (2) | Community Service, food stamps, gentrification, homeless, homeless LGBT youth, homeless youth, Homelessness, Hunger, LA, la county, Los Angeles, national homelessness and hunger awareness week, Opinion, poverty, rent, SC Homelessness Initiative, Skid Row, snap, students, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, university of southern california, USC, volunteer

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Pragati Mamtora, Katherine Schofield, Vivian Yan
Contributors

A population larger than USC's entire student body goes without a place to sleep every night, forgotten by most.

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