Tasty Morning Bytes – Older and Very Unemployed, Downtown Library Cuts Hours and an Unfestive Fiesta
Good morning, DCentric readers! Happy Tuesday to you.
The Epistemology of Race Talk “Further, I am grateful to live in a time when white Americans are furious about anyone suggesting that they are racist. I much prefer to live in a country and at a moment where the idea of being racist is distasteful rather than commonplace. In many ways the angry reaction about even the suggestion of racial bias is a kind of racial progress.” (thenation.com)
Unemployment: Older Jobless Twice As Likely To Become 99ers “Older workers are less likely to lose their jobs than younger workers, but once they do, they’re more than twice as likely to be out of work for 99 weeks or longer.” (Huffington Post)
Gaurav Gopalan’s DC Murder Remains Unsolved [article with video] “Members of Washington’s gay, lesbian, and transgender community are concerned that Gopalan might have been targeted because of his sexual orientation. A concern heightened by the fact that several transgender people have been attacked recently in Washington, and all the attacks, including the one on Gopolan, have so far gone unsolved.” (WUSA Washington, DC)
Downtown library shutting its doors on Sundays “On any given Sunday, the city’s flagship library is no more serene than your average community center, elementary school or ESPN Zone. This Sunday, parents read picture books aloud in the children’s room, teens lined up to use a mini-recording studio, and anxious Internet seekers checked a waiting list for computer access that was maxed out at 50 names.” (The Washington Post)
Fiesta DC Wasn’t a Party For Everyone “According to the D.C. Department of Public Works, organizers didn’t ask the city to help with clean-up, contracting only a small cadre of sanitation workers to deal with what ended up being mounds of garbage. DPW sent in a crew after the festival ended to help gather garbage and clean the streets. No one at Fiesta DC headquarters answered the phone today, and the voicemail was full.” (DCist)
One Roof, Three Generations – Portrait of a Chinese-American Family “The percentage of households in the United States containing three or more generations has nearly tripled over the past 30 years, to 7 percent in 2009 from 2.4 percent in 1980, according to Census Bureau reports. The living arrangement is even more common, and growing more rapidly, in New York City, where immigrant values and expensive real estate have combined to make 10 percent of households span at least three generations.” (The New York Times)