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John LaConte/jlaconte@vaildaily.com GYPSUM — Carla Whirley is a taxidermist, not to be confused with a tax specialist. But with more people hunting during and following the pandemic, business is good, and she’s taking a second look at accepting the monthly payments available to her as a mother of two under the recent expansion of the child tax credit. In 2021, as a result of the American Rescue Plan’s Child Tax Credit, families will be allowed to claim a $3,000 tax exemption per child, up from the $2,000 allowed in previous years. And for kids under 6, the exemption has moved to $3,600.

Adapted from Chapter One, “Wounds” For several decades Southern black folks carrying suitcases full of prized possessions fled poverty and threats of lynching to pursue the elusive dream of a better life in Northern cities like Boston. By the early 1960s, turbulence and race uprisings plagued much of the country yet bypassed Boston. The city had a self-congratulatory air because its predominantly African American community of Roxbury exercised restraint while other cities burned. Everything changed that humid day in June. I was seven years old at the time. That night in my aunt and uncle�...

I took a DNA test for fun and made a shocking discovery  She thought it would be interesting to explore her genetic heritage, but the result plunged her world into chaos I grew up an only child in a happy, ordinary home. I knew my parents had tried for four years to have me, but I certainly never questioned where I came from. In the mirror, I saw a face like Mum’s, with height and eye colour that came from Dad. Growing up, I didn’t know much about my dad’s side of the family. Both my parent’s families were Jewish immigrants – my mum’s from Germany and the Netherlands, and my dad�...