Timothy Pratt

Reporter

Minority affairs, Immigration, Social services.

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Urban League takes a shot at developing its own priorities: A consultant’s plan cost $46,000; this one will be free; Wednesday, May 14, 2008; What a difference $46,000 doesn’t make.
United Way redistributing wealth to local charities: Where precedent ruled, allocations now based on study of community needs; Monday, May 12, 2008; The Las Vegas Valley’s wealthiest private supporter of social service programs has changed the way it hands out money, making a tough transition that will cut a total of $2.1 million from 20 organizations over a two-year period.
Wisdom went with the words at Native Son: Community’s teacher shutters his West Las Vegas bookstore; Friday, May 2, 2008; The first black senator in Nevada’s Legislature, corporals and coaches, the first black women in the fire departments of Clark County and Las Vegas, directors of programs to help gang members, engineers, no-hitter pitchers — they all learned something at Native Son.
Poor people’s advocate may need a little help itself: Thursday, May 1, 2008; Officials for an organization that receives $4.5 million to fight poverty in Southern Nevada heard some startling news last week. Their nonprofit group, the Las Vegas-Clark County Urban League, had just $33.24 in the bank as of April 11.
First things first: For homeless, a home: Program offers shelter with no conditions and lots of help to those long on streets; Tuesday, April 22, 2008; After careening through the nation’s alleys and jail cells for half his life, 47-year-old Michael Sumling saw his future one Fremont Street morning in a plastic bottle of Coke — with urine and a cigarette butt in it.
Lines for Social Security cards may just get longer: Homeland Security change could force many legal residents to prove identity; Wednesday, April 16, 2008; The Las Vegas Valley’s Social Security Card Center, already among the nation’s busiest, will be even more of a headache for employees and customers if the federal government makes the agency enforce immigration laws, the head of the agency’s field worker union says.
Immigrants boost economy — but how much?: A study could help state avoid more surprises, but politics preserve willful ignorance; Monday, April 14, 2008; Nevada’s invisible workers are causing trouble for the state.
VEGAS EXODUS: How a slump in housing construction has cost immigrant workers their jobs and sent them home; Sunday, April 6, 2008; Alejandro Salazar slumps into a cushioned seat halfway into the bus, looks out from under a baseball cap and thinks about a future more than a thousand miles away. He came to the Las Vegas Valley from Mexico five years ago to build houses, launching a run of $700-a-week paychecks that made it worth crossing the desert into the United States. But those weekly checks were whittled down to $200 over the past year; he sold his van and is returning to Aguascalientes. “At least I have family there,” he says, shrugging his shoulders.
For the poor, tough times could get tougher: With more and more seeking help, officials consider new limits on benefits; Sunday, April 6, 2008; State officials are considering the longest list of possible cuts in food stamps and welfare benefits in nearly a decade. The ideas include such controversial proposals as putting a “family cap” on households receiving welfare, basically denying or reducing additional benefits to families that have more children while in the program. Another would disqualify entire families from receiving food stamps if the adult head of household does not look for a job.
It’s the ’hood or Mom: Helping gangbangers choose: Saturday, March 29, 2008; The teenage boys in baggy shorts and girls in tight jeans had brought guns to school, stolen cars or broken into the homes of neighbors.