Refers to persons age 24 months to 12 years. Policy areas relating to children include education, food, workplace leave and flexibility, parks and recreation, and consumer safety standards.
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As we delve into the findings of the UNICEF 2023 Child Marriage report, we are faced with both encouraging progress and sobering realities regarding child marriage worldwide. Today, I want to share my thoughts on the report’s insights and the urgent...
by populationmediacenter
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. When you watch the latest TV news on Israel’s war in Gaza, it feels as if its military had invaded another country. So, it’s...
by TomDispatch
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this Mom and daughter are amazing. I really want folks to watch this to the end. Please, before reading my comments, just watch this extraordinary exchange between a mother and her brilliant 2nd grader. Well worth it www.facebook.com/… or this one...
by DSC on the Plateau
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“As we look to the future, the only real solution is a two-state solution.” President Joe Biden — State of the Union Address My Heart Is Heavy My name is Fawzi Guleid. I am a Muslim by birth and an American by choice. I am emotionally drained and...
by Bulbul22
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis attacked the infamous Libs of TikTok social media account, operated by right-wing troll Chaya Raichik, on Wednesday, writing , “Truth shouldn’t be a casualty of ...
by Walter Einenkel
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WHAT IS PRONATALISM? Pronatalism is the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate. Many who push pronatalism fear that falling birth rates in certain developed countries, like the...
by populationmediacenter
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The Denver City Council is considering a proposal �that would remove sugary drinks from kids meals�at restaurants. Parents could still buy sodas for their children for an additional cost, but the ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Mar 11, 2024 at 01:02 PM PDT
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West Virginia’s almost entirely Republican state Senate passed a bill in late January that would require schools in the state to display “In God We Trust'' signs—in every single classroom. ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 12:00 PM PST
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Feel good story. In honor of Women’s History Month. Boys have been often regarded as being bad. My father’s best friend said his whole generation was thought unfit, mentally and physically, in 1939. Two years later they went to war and became the...
by Nine Shift
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 10:08 AM PST
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West Virginia’s Republicans passed a bill through the House of Delegates on Monday that would allow religious exemptions for vaccines required for school attendance. The bill comes as dozens of ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 02:30 PM PST
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I thought I should write a bit of an update on what’s happening with my friends in Ghana so y’all can keep informed. Right now everything is more or less on pause because it’s the end of the month and we’re all broke so everyone is just trying to hang...
by McCrowlerr
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 10:30 AM PST
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To The Dandelion
James Russel Lowell (1819-1891)
�Dear common flower, that grow’st beside the way,
Fringing the dusty road with ...
by strawbale
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on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 07:00 PM PST
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This is a scrolling video of the names of the eleven thousand, five hundred children that have died in Gaza as a result of this war. Each name is written in very small font, crammed on to the screen, and the video scrolls through their names very...
by scorinaldi
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on Fri Feb 02, 2024 at 11:03 AM PST
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Top tech executives appeared in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday as a part of a hearing titled “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis.” Senators asked questions of the CEOs of Meta (the parent company of...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 01:25 PM PST
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Facebook TwitterEmailPrintCopy article l Most years when we’re on the threshold of a new year, I don’t think about resolutions I probably can’t keep. But I do contemplate my life as a writer as I put aside prior works and enter a new ever-changing...
by eclift
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Just over two weeks ago, on new year’s eve, 14-year-old Zykere Langley died from a bullet fired into his chest at close range in Greenville, North Carolina. This young boy’s death took the total of American children shot in 2023 to 6,193, an all-time...
by Alan Austin
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We call it football. A game that evolved from the REAL football (what we call soccer, which truly and completely focuses on the role of the foot) into something completely different, and then hijacked the name of its distant relative. A "sport" that...
by Gregg Fritchle
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on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 02:52 PM PST
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz went on CNN Thursday to talk about what Democrats are doing versus what Republicans are not doing. Walz is the new chair of the Democratic Governors Association, and was asked about a comment he recently made to Politico about...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Dec 08, 2023 at 08:50 AM PST
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On Tuesday morning, world’s richest man Elon Musk went to his drowning social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) to post a meme supporting the thoroughly (and repeatedly) debunked “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory. The meme uses images from the...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Nov 28, 2023 at 11:22 AM PST
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Clean water Today, I am grateful that a small group of citizens in Titusville, Florida managed to fight our own city to force them to give us the right to clean water. Two years ago, we began collecting petitions from Titusville voters that said, we...
by KatPez
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