( Cornell University ) Nearly half of American children — including 90 percent of black children and 90 percent of children who spend their childhoods in single-parent households — will eat meals paid for by food stamps at some point during childhood, reports a Cornell researcher. More: continued here
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( Washington University in St. Louis ) “Forty-nine percent of all US children will be in a household that uses food stamps at some point during their childhood,” says Mark R. Rank, Ph.D., poverty expert at Washington University in St. Louis. “Food stamp use is a clear sign of poverty …
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Read More »Ebay removes anti-abortion memorabilia from site (San Francisco Chronicle)
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