The Basic Facts About Children in Poverty Getty/Gregory Rec
A boy holds his little brother s hand after picking him up at the bus stop in Biddeford, Maine, April 2020.
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For more on this topic, see The Basic Facts About Women in Poverty
Women, especially women of color, in the United States are more likely to live in poverty than men, and they need robust, targeted solutions to ensure their long-term economic security. Read
Introduction and summary
In America, nearly 11 million children are poor. That’s 1 in 7 kids, who make up almost one-third of all people living in poverty in this country. This number should be unimaginable in one of the world’s wealthiest countries, and yet child poverty has remained stubbornly high for decades Across the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which is made up of 37 countries including Denmark, New Zealand, Spain, and the United Kingdom, the United States is consistently rank
Departing Pa. Treasurer Joe Torsella donates final pay raise to Keystone Scholars
Updated Jan 11, 2021;
Posted Jan 11, 2021
Departing state Treasurer Joe Torsella made his final donation of the automatic pay raise statutorily provided to him, to the Keystone Scholars, a program that makes a $100 starter deposit in the state s 529, college savings plan for every baby born to or adopted by a Pennsylvania family.
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Pennsylvania Treasurer Joe Torsella held true to his commitment to his final days in office of donating to charity any pay increase above the $160,000-plus salary attached to his executive branch post when he first assumed the elective office.
Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 - 7:16am
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The longstanding gaps in public health, health care delivery and health insurance systems that worsened COVID-19 s impact remain and could leave the U.S. vulnerable to the next pandemic.
The halting progress of coronavirus vaccines has injected a few CCs of hope into the pandemic s ongoing awfulness. But the same longstanding gaps in public health, health care delivery and health insurance systems that worsened COVID-19 s impact remain and could leave the U.S. vulnerable to the next pandemic.
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Part 1: Holes In The Dike
When a pandemic floods American shores, the U.S. relies on scientific experts and public health officials to work the proverbial pumps and fill the figurative sandbags. That goes double for those who live, learn, work and play in the nation s vulnerable socioeconomic lowlands.
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PORTSMOUTH On New Year’s Eve, the city’s two new ordinances banning single-use disposable plastic and polystyrene, more commonly known as Styrofoam, went into effect. Only one, however, is being immediately enforced by city officials.
Bert Cohen, chair of Portsmouth’s sustainability committee, said with a spirit of goodwill and public compliance with the ordinances, the city is headed in the right direction toward creating a greener environment.
To continue doing so, he said, “We all need to be systems thinkers.”
“I’m aware that there are many bioplastics being produced and experimented with and they will obviously have their upsides and downsides, but we can use cellulose to make plastics which will be biodegradable,” he said. “By moving off fossil fuel-based plastic, which is what Styrofoam is, if we went to a biofuel produced by natural cellulose, in five years we might have products that we can put in natural gardens that can decompose. That would be a