child poverty
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Ending Child Poverty Now
The bottom line is simple: we can save hundreds of billions by investing in healthy, educated children or spend hundreds…
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Prayers for the Holy Season
All during the Christmas season, as millions celebrate a poor, homeless child Christians call Savior, I think about the irony…
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Child Watch: The Piercing Cry of Child Poverty
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Pope Francis speaks out faithfully and forcefully against poverty and has been called…
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Boosting Child Tax Credit Would Lift Poor Black Children Out of Poverty
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Reforms proposed to the Child Tax Credit by the Center for…
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Child Poverty Down for Whites, Asians, Hispanics, But Steady for Blacks
(NBC News) – The poverty rate has declined for Hispanic, white and Asian children, but has remained steady for Black…
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Report: Economic Growth Failing to Help World’s Poorest Kids
KATY DAIGLE, Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Global resolve to rescue impoverished children from lives of squalor, disease and…
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UNICEF Urges World to Focus on Most Disadvantaged Children
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency is warning that unless the world focuses…
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Child Watch: Charity is Not a Substitute for Justice
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In his speech the night before his murder Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.…
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Child Watch: Clamoring to Enter Housing’s Poor Door
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist More than 88,000 people have applied to enter the “poor door” at a…
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To Be Equal: Eradicating Childhood Poverty One Nose at a Time
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the…
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