Greyhound bus trip provides snapshot of U.S. poor
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Every morning at 7.30 a Greyhound bus loads up with passengers in New Orleans, climbs a ramp to Interstate 10 and slips into the rush hour traffic to start its journey to Atlanta.
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Another Michigan city is offering bus trips to Canada so seniors can buy less-expensive prescription drugs, the Detroit Free Press reported Saturday.
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Poor residents will be rewarded for good behavior &#151; like $300 for doing well on school tests, $150 for holding a job and $200 for visiting the doctor &#151; under an experimental anti-poverty program that city officials detailed Monday.
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SOWETO, South Africa  - Seeing buses full of tourists looking for a glimpse of South African poverty, squatter camp resident Lawrence Rolomana decided to try to earn a share of the cash they were spending.
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A Bridgewater company is betting the road to success goes through some of the world's poorest countries.
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A Greyhound bus collided with a tractor trailer on an interstate, injuring 21 people, one seriously, authorities said.
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While John Edwards was winding up a tour of America's most impoverished areas, another Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), came to Anacostia yesterday to stake his own claim as a poverty warrior -- and to present a vision for fixing struggling inner cities that directly...
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The 30 Chicago-area passengers who were en route to Tunica, Miss, when their tour bus overturned off Interstate 55 near Marion, Arkansas early Saturday morning were all hoping to get lucky during a casino weekend in the Mississippi resort town.
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A new journal focuses on common ailments that afflict the worldâs poor.
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Former Sen. John Edwards is riding a bus across his native state of South Carolina, trying to recapture the glory from his 2004 win there to boost his struggling presidential campaign.
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- Ever wonder where America's yellow school buses go to die? Some don't -- they find a second life on Central Africa's rutted, traffic-choked roads.
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MARKS, Miss., July 16 -- From the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans to the Mississippi Delta to this town where Martin Luther King Jr. began his Poor People's Campaign almost four decades ago, John Edwards's message has been the same: Americans living in poverty are working hard but need more help ...
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Democratic presidential candidate  John Edwards is touring eight U.S. states this week to  highlight poverty in America, and put the issue at the heart of  his campaign.
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Working in poverty-stricken areas gives corporate travelers an up-close look at global problems such as disease, illiteracy or injustice. It also puts them in a position to bring about change.
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WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. The people on the tour bus that crashed in Arkansas while en route from Chicago to Tunica, Mississippi, were members of a group that went to the gambling town twice a year.
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The Census Bureau reported today that 36.5 million Americans, or 12.3 percent, were living in poverty last year, down from 12.6 percent in 2005.
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Five people in five cities reflect on the nationÂs road forward.