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    <title>Opinion Editorials for New York's 10th Congressional District</title>
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    <description>Recent Opinion Editorials from Congressman Edolphus Towns</description>
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    <managingEditor>shrita.sterlin@mail.house.gov</managingEditor>
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    <title><![CDATA[Fighting for Social workers, a community&rsquo;s lifeline Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young Social Work Reinvestment Act]]></title>
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                                New Yorkers are struggling against the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression. According to the New York City Department of Labor, the unemployment rate reached 7.2% in December of 2008, and there is no bright light in sight. The resultant after effects are that many hardworking New Yorkers have become homeless and experience difficulty feeding their families. Many New Yorkers are looking for a way out &ndash; real answers to real problems. Families are in search of ways to regain a solid footing.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2/13/2009</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bike Trail, DeKalb Ave.]]></title>
    <link>http://www.house.gov//list/speech/ny10_towns/022009_oped.html</link>
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                                This year, the Department of Transportation (DOT) released a plan to install a dedicated bicycle lane on DeKalb Avenue, spanning the Clinton Hill, Fort Greene and Bedford-Stuyvesant communities. Currently, the street is a two-lane westbound thoroughfare with a lane on each side designated for parking. DeKalb is home to a thriving marketplace of small businesses that line the street along much of the stretch. DeKalb also serves as the route for one of Brooklyn's most heavily used bus lines, the B38, which transports thousands of neighborhood residents from Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Fort Green, and Clinton Hill to Downtown Brooklyn each morning.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2/1/2009</pubDate>
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