Illinois taxpayers could benefit from $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. But the state's poorest residents could bear the brunt of $1 ...

Before the vaccines, such illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth ...

Can you picture what we'll be/ So limitless and free/ Desperately in need of some stranger's hand” - The Doors In the 1990s ...

Zuckerberg was spoiling for a fight. The day before, he’d suffered an egregious snub from Joe Biden’s White House, when he had not been invited to a summit of “AI leaders”, billed as a meeting of ...

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Statistics read by Mikal at the beginning of the doc make that clear. “The official poverty rate in the U.S. is 11.5%, meaning that approximately 34 million people live in poverty,” Mikal says.

Prevent Child Abuse America has a budget of more than $10 million, including a current grant of $1.7 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

UNICEF announced in 2013 that the United States has the second-highest child poverty rate in the developed world. The United Nations dispatched a special team to analyze the “extreme poverty and ...

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The child tax credit passed under his administration will expire at the end of next year. If the next Congress and president do not act, the credit will fall back to $1,000 a child.

“Expanding the child tax credit is the single most effective option on the table for reducing child poverty in America,” said Christy Gleason of Save the Children, a global humanitarian ...