A record number of Americans are living in poverty. That's according to new numbers released by the Census Bureau today for 2009 but FSRN's Jacob Fenston reports the numbers weren't as bad as many expected. more>

A record number of Americans are living in poverty. That's according to new numbers released by the Census Bureau today for 2009 but FSRN's Jacob Fenston reports the numbers weren't as bad as many expected. more>

Senator Harry Reid announced Tuesday September 14th that the DREAM Act will be added to the Defense Authorization Bill. Free Speech Radio News reports. more>

Internal government documents released last month show that the Obama Administration is deporting thousands of immigrants who have no criminal record. Free Speech Radio News reports. more>

Competing rallies were held in Lower Manhattan yesterday, over the proposed Islamic Cultural Center to be constructed two blocks from the site of the September 11 terrorist attacks. more>

Immigrant youth in NYC have marched to Senator Chuck Schumer's office to pressure lawmakers to pass the DREAM ACT. But there is another less talked about option – joining the US military. Community News Production Institute Reporter Jaisal Noor brings both sides of the debate. more>

NYCMA Education Fellow and a reporter for The Indypendent Jaisal Noor and Kieran Meadows investigate in-depth the battle over military recruitment in the city's public schools. They take us to one of the most heavily recruited counties in the nation; Kings County, also known as Brooklyn. This documentary was produced as part of the New York Community Alliance's Education Fellowship program. more>

Former US Ambassador Edward Peck, former chief of mission in Iraq and served as deputy director of the White House Task Force on Terrorism in the Reagan administration was on board one of the ships in the Gaza convoy that was attacked by Israeli forces. He gave this account to Free Speech Radio News. more>

Ten youth spent the summer exploring the culture of eating in a city where some of the most iconic foods are the half-smoke: an extra large sausage split down the middle and usually topped with chili, and something called mambo sauce, which looks like ketchup but more gelatinous. The youth also looked at the challenges of some communities' access to healthy, affordable food in their neighborhood. more>

The US federal minimum wage went up to $7.25 an hour on July 24, 2009. The increase is welcome news to minimum wage earners, but not all low-wage workers will benefit. On the line is Raj Nayak of the National Employment Law Project. FSRN's Tanya Snyder reports. more>