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YouTube star Ms. Rachel slams Mayor Adams’ cuts to early childhood education – New York Post

She’s schooling the mayor. Beloved children’s YouTube star Ms. Rachel has hit out at New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ for cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from early childhood education — stressing that investment in the program provides returns that last children’s “whole lives.” “Parents are really struggling to find affordable, high-quality child care,”

NGO Save Ukraine rescues 6 more children, their families from Russian occupation – Kyiv Independent

‘Why does everyone have 2 legs but me?’ Children learn to live with prosthetics after being injured by Russia’s war Eleven-year-old Oleksandr Reshetniak from Kharkiv Oblast still vividly remembers holding the stump of his torn-off leg, trying to stop the bleeding. On Jan. 17, Oleksandr and his 13-year-old cousin Alina were heading to a grocery

The austere US safety net for poor, non-elderly adults who are not raising children and do not receive disability benefits … – Brookings Institution

The U.S. safety net has grown significantly stronger for children and elderly adults over the past half century. However, the story is starkly different for non-elderly adults who are not raising children and do not receive Supplemental Security Income disability benefits or Social Security benefits, Robert Greenstein argues in his Hamilton Project paper. In 2017,

Poverty in the United States could reach highest level in over 50 years — Columbia University Center on Poverty and … – Center on Poverty and Social Policy

In our current model, we project that if unemployment rates rise to 30 percent, the annual poverty rate in the United States will increase from 12.4 percent to 18.9 percent. This represents an increase of more than 21 million individuals in poverty and would mark the highest recorded rate of poverty since at least 1967.