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thedailyfeed: Can you imagine going to prison for 10 years for a crime you didn’t commit? This high school football star and NFL hopeful, who was wrongly jailed for rape, was finally exonerated after the woman who accused him admitted she lied. [Brian Banks, 26,] spent more than five years in prison and another five on parole. He had to register as a sex offender and was still wearing an ankle monitor during yesterday’s hearing. “If I can do this, I can get through anything,” he told The Daily just after leaving a Long Beach, Calif., courtroom. “This was my hardest part, and, as they say, good things go to people who hustle while they wait.”

thedailyfeed:

Can you imagine going to prison for 10 years for a crime you didn’t commit? This high school football star and NFL hopeful, who was wrongly jailed for rape, was finally exonerated after the woman who accused him admitted she lied.

[Brian Banks, 26,] spent more than five years in prison and another five on parole. He had to register as a sex offender and was still wearing an ankle monitor during yesterday’s hearing.

“If I can do this, I can get through anything,” he told The Daily just after leaving a Long Beach, Calif., courtroom. “This was my hardest part, and, as they say, good things go to people who hustle while they wait.”

thedailyfeed: Starving doctors are the new starving artists, as the rate of Ph. D. holders on welfare has more than doubled since 2007.  The rate of Ph.D. holders receiving food stamps or other government aid has more than doubled since the recession started almost five years ago — from 0.4 percent in 2007 to just over 1 percent in 2010, according to data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau. And those with a bachelor’s degree or higher getting public assistance jumped likewise, more than doubling between 2007 and 2010.

thedailyfeed:

Starving doctors are the new starving artists, as the rate of Ph. D. holders on welfare has more than doubled since 2007. 

The rate of Ph.D. holders receiving food stamps or other government aid has more than doubled since the recession started almost five years ago — from 0.4 percent in 2007 to just over 1 percent in 2010, according to data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau.

And those with a bachelor’s degree or higher getting public assistance jumped likewise, more than doubling between 2007 and 2010.