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Blank, 66, announced the news Monday, the same day she was slated to take the helm of Northwestern University. She did not specify the type of cancer.

The report studied how much the Great Recession widened racial wealth gaps between Black and Brown families and the rest of the country.

Crucial themes from the report include lack of homeownership, differences in income, debt accrued and access to credit.

COURTESY OF MAGNOLIA MOTHER’S TRUST Cajania Brown, a Black single mother from Jackson, Mississippi, receives $1,000 per month as part of a cash assistance program called the Magnolia Mother’s Trust. Undoing Welfare Reform If Congress makes the expanded Child Tax Credit permanent, simple, and universal, it could have reverberations across the entire welfare state. Cheri Honkala has been a welfare rights activist since the 1980s. It’s been decades of frustratingly slow work, ensuri...

The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan offers the most sweeping anti-poverty package for children in U.S. history.

LA Johnson/NPR The COVID-19 relief bill working its way through Congress is full of big ideas to help people. But theres one idea thats so big, it was politically unthinkable not that long ago. President Biden and Democratic lawmakers want to fight child poverty by giving U.S. families a few hundred dollars every month for every child in their household — no strings attached. A kind of child allowance. If this proposal survives the wrangling in Congress and makes it to Bidens desk...

AILSA CHANG, HOST: The COVID relief bill working its way through Congress is full of big ideas to help people. But one idea is so big it was politically unthinkable not that long ago. Lawmakers want to fight child poverty by giving families a few hundred dollars every month for every child in their household - no strings attached. Not only does this have President Bidens support, Republican Senator Mitt Romney of Utah has his own version. NPRs Cory Turner explains how the two plans compare an...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with actress Michelle Pfeiffer about her new film, French Exit.

AILSA CHANG, HOST: The COVID relief bill working its way through Congress is full of big ideas to help people. But one idea is so big it was politically unthinkable not that long ago. Lawmakers want to fight child poverty by giving families a few hundred dollars every month for every child in their household - no strings attached. Not only does this have President Bidens support, Republican Senator Mitt Romney of Utah has his own version. NPRs Cory Turner explains how the two plans compare an...

Professor says $15 too high, but state could take incremental steps. //end headline wrapper ?> A nursing home on Milwaukee’s East Side. Photo by Jeramey Jannene. The federal minimum wage hasn’t been increased since 2009, and while some advocates are still pushing for a $15 minimum wage despite recent efforts being stymied by the U.S. Senate, one economist is saying more modest increases are a better course of action in Wisconsin. The rate has stayed consistent in the state with the federal...