In today’s rundown: D.C. is expanding the food stamp program. | District Public Schools teachers have reportedly negotiated a 20 percent raise over five years. | A Washington Post columnist takes a look at “The Invisible Underclass.”
— District officials announced Tuesday that they expanded the city’s food stamp program recently, allowing up to 5,000 residents to be added to the rolls to help fight poverty and boost the local economy. Click here for more details.
— D.C. Public Schools teachers would receive a 20 percent raise over five years and a shot at thousands of dollars more as part of a new deal struck between Chancellor Michelle Rhee and the Washington Teachers’ Union. For more details on what sources say is in the new contract, click here.
— In the wake of last week’s shooting that claimed the lives of four young people in Southeast D.C., columnist Eugene Robinson takes a look at the disparity and economic statistics in that community. He also wonders why it takes a tragedy followed by a presidential visit to “train the spotlight even briefly on the too-large segment of the African American population that remains mired in desperate poverty and self-sustaining dysfunction.” Click here to read “The Invisible Underclass.”
