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The American Lung Association has released its latest "State of the Air" report and the Pittsburgh region has received a ...
The documentary 'Flophouse America' looks at an American family living below the poverty line in a cheap hotel.
My research with collaborators digs deeper into the workings of specific War on Poverty programs, seeking evidence about ...
A cash aid program for moms and babies has already distributed about $8.5 million to more than 2,000 families in Flint, ...
Nearly 3 million people were kept out of poverty after Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits saw a boost ...
The most common conditions of maltreatment include parental drug and alcohol abuse, severe mental illness, domestic violence and the presence of nonrelative males in a home. Money alone is not a fix.
I think that they are going to, in the next four years, do all they can to try to dismantle the Head Start program,” says ...
Failing to scrap the limit could put child poverty at its highest level since records began by the end of this parliament, ...
President Donald Trump’s firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office that sets federal ...
Director Monica Strømdahl’s “Flophouse America” provides a visceral ... unemotional voice shares statistics about children living with poverty, parental abuse and alcoholism in the United ...
They are uttered by 12-year-old Mikal in the documentary Flophouse America, which just made its ... “The official poverty rate in the U.S. is 11.5%, meaning that approximately 34 million people ...
Charities have been ramping up pressure on the Government to ditch the benefits restriction as part of its new child poverty ...