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        <title>Brookings Institution</title>
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			<title><![CDATA[More poverty in Baltimore's suburbs than in Baltimore]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-20 18:21:34</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[More people live in poverty in Baltimore's suburbs than in the city itself, part of a nationwide shift that is challenging the largely urban assistance network built up over decades.

Suburban poverty in the Baltimore area grew 58 percent between 2000 and...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[For unwed moms, 25 is the new 15]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-01 03:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It is no longer teenagers stumbling into pregnancy and parenthood about whom we should be fretting. Those numbers continue to drop, because the kids are having less sex and using more contraception. 

No, it is the 20-something women who are putting...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Maryland adds 10,500 jobs in February]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-29 17:03:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Maryland employers punched the accelerator on job creation in February, adding 10,500 positions and bringing the state much closer to recovering its recessionary losses five years after they began.

The job growth estimates released Friday by the U.S....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[When the heart says Baltimore and the head says D.C.]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-28 10:26:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Five years ago, I thought I might have to leave Baltimore. Not because I wanted to but because I thought I needed to. 

It was 2008. Like many employers, Urbanite magazine, where I worked, was feeling the effects of the Great Recession, so I would soon...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[What Steel City can teach Charm City]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-02-21 11:48:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I never thought I'd hear a Baltimorean say such a thing. 

Last week, while reporting on the Rawlings-Blake administration's 10-year financial plan, I spoke with the mayor's press secretary, Ian Brennan. We covered a lot of ground in our hourlong phone...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The wisdom of Dan Quayle]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-28 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Almost exactly 20 years ago, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead wrote a controversial essay for The Atlantic titled "Dan Quayle Was Right." 

In case you forgot (or never knew), let me fill you in on what Mr. Quayle was right about. 

There once was a popular sitcom...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Recession changed course of population growth in metro Baltimore]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-23 15:26:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Not too long ago, Carroll County faced a problem: Rapid growth had brought crowded classrooms to the northeastern part of the county, and planners expected many more homes to be built in the area. 

"At one point, they were 400 kids over capacity at North...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Progress for Penn Station]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-18 10:32:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[When it was built a century ago, Baltimore's Pennsylvania Station was embraced as a new gateway to the city. The elaborate Beaux-Arts building announced Baltimore's significance to the nation and anticipated serving generations of travelers to come....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fort Meade apartments a first &#8212; probably not a last]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-17 20:49:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[More than 1,300 young, single soldiers, sailors and other service members drive to Fort Meade every work day because they don't live on post &mdash; can't, actually, because the barracks are full and other homes there are for families. 

The Army...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Baltimore's population up, following decades of loss]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-14 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Baltimore, coming off six decades of population decline, grew by 1,100 residents in 12 months, according to government estimates released Thursday. 

"It's such amazing news. &hellip; It's huge psychologically," said Seema D. Iyer, a former research chief...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Md. must nurture minority leadership]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-02-13 09:45:55</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Black History Month reminds us that our diversity is the fabric of our nation. We recently commemorated the life and work of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and we are reminded that this coming August marks the 50th anniversary of his "I Have a Dream"...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[In nationwide innovation battle, Baltimore area lags on patents]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-02-01 19:38:17</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Dr. Luis Diaz is an oncologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, a researcher with patented findings and the co-founder of a small, fast-expanding company.

"We've grown from no employees to one employee to four employees and now we have 12,"...]]></description>
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