Campus & Community
RISE sets its sights on helping some of Cambridge’s neediest
Rose Lincoln/Harvard file photo In Cambridge, one out of every 10 families with children under the age of 18 and one in three woman-headed households with minor children live below the poverty line. Black or African American, Hispanic, or Latinx residents are twice as likely to live under the poverty line, and the pandemic has only exacerbated health and wealth gaps by race and gender.To help some of its most vulnerable neighbors, Harvard and local philanthropic partners including MIT, the Cambridge Community Foundation, and others […]
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