— Needy D.C. residents have been camping out for days at some service centers that process welfare and other aid applications. The centers are so understaffed, and the need is so great that some D.C. Council members are calling the long lines a crisis. Click here to read more.
— “A task force of local elected officials across the Washington region is calling on communities to band together to tackle the disproportionately high unemployment levels among African Americans and Hispanics,” according to the Washington Post. Click here for the full details.
— Researchers call it “the rise of the wives” — women have become the dominant income-providers in one-in-five marriages. A new report out today says that men get an economic boost when they say “I do,” and often end up with a partner who has at least as much education as they do. To read more, click here.
— More than 30,000 volunteers in our region participated in community service projects to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. yesterday. Click here to listen to a WAMU story about how the impact of their work will be felt for years to come.
