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Visualizing Poverty Growth In Dallas

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See that dark, brooding image above? That is an attempt to illustrate the increases and decreases in poverty in different neighborhoods in Dallas. The red arrows represent where poverty has increased. They are thicker where populations are denser and longer where poverty has increased more. The green arrows represent where poverty has decreased. You can see them clustered around Uptown and fanning out through the central part of North Dallas. The biggest decrease looks to be in West Dallas.

The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir

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Now a retired fisherman and trapper, the author was one of an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis children who were taken from their families and sent to government-funded, church-run schools, where they were subjected to a policy of “aggressive assimilation.” As Augie Merasty recounts, these schools did more than attempt to mold children in the ways of white society. They were taught to be ashamed of their native heritage and, as he experienced, often suffered physical and sexual abuse.