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Food Insecurity: 1 in 6 Americans Struggles to Buy Food
ABC News: The number of Americans struggling to put food on the table remains at record levels though the Obama administration says the government’s safety net has kept hunger from getting worse. The USDA reports
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New Republic: Let Them Eat Cake Or Don’t Bake At All
NPR: Flannery O’Connor once described the contradictory desires that afflict all of us with characteristic simplicity. “Free will does not mean one will,” she wrote, “but many wills conflicting in one man.” The existence of
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Community Has a Role in Health of Low-Income Kids
US News & World Report: Living in a connected community may protect poor teens from health risks such as smoking or obesity, researchers have found. In a study of low-income and middle-income families, Cornell University researchers
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Having a Strong Community Protects Adolescents From Risky Health Behaviors
Children who grow up in poverty have health problems as adults. But a new study finds that poor adolescents who live in communities with more social cohesiveness and control get some measure of protection; they’re
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Children in Poverty: Implications for Research, Public Policy
Approximately 20 percent of US children under the age of six live in poverty, the highest rate of all developed countries. What are the effects and outcomes of children who are raised in poverty? What
