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... student loan debt, and so much of it remains unpaid and unserviced. What happens if that comes back online and everybody is stuck with a bill again? That's an economic shock of its own kind. The good news is, the Fed took up rates by a chunky, what, 4 ...
The changes, made at the urging of Senate Majority Leader Tom Takubo, who is a physician, would allow some transgender youth to continue receiving medical interventions under certain circumstances, including hormone therapy if they experience severe gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is defined by medical professionals as severe psychological distress experienced ...
... Geoff Bennett: So gun control is not moving really anywhere. It's entirely stalled. The Biden administration has talked about providing more funding for community intervention of the President signed a bill regulating so called ghost guns, what needs to happen to sort of move the needle here? Jennifer Mascia ...
By comparison, four of the five top U.S. asylum applicants are from Latin American countries — El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Honduras. Their acceptance rates range from 6.21% to 14.12%. Nicole Phillips, legal director for the Haitian Bridge Alliance, said racism has long driven the American government’s ...
... new report from researchers at the Federal Reserve and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that after the 1918 flu pandemic, cities that implemented strong intervention measures, like closing businesses and schools, early on in the outbreak were more successful at reducing mortality and also saw stronger economic growth after ...
... guns. Biden doesn't offer a price tag for his voluntary buyback proposal but proposes a $900 million, eight-year grant program for evidence-based intervention programs in 40 cities with high homicide rates. The idea reflects a point Biden and some other candidates make often when campaigning: Mass shootings ...
... as the daughter of an alcoholic who struggled with addiction for years before getting sober. The wide-ranging plan, released Friday, includes funding for early intervention of mental health disorders and drug use, a national suicide prevention campaign, better access to opioid addiction and other types of treatment and recruitment ...
... was 75, raised his hand to hit Christal — something he hadn’t done in his old age — and her fiancé, Allen Holtzman, stepped in to intervene. In a flash, Bill pulled the .22 pistol out of his pocket and fired at Holtzman’s chest, knocking him down to the couch ...
... could have been much worse. Today, James Shaw Jr. tearfully told state House members that he wasn't trying to be a hero when he intervened. James Shaw Jr.: I didn't actually do it to save people. I did it just to save my life. So, in me saving ...
A Native American tribe in northern California was appalled last month when Shasta County demanded an extra $1,000 in penalties for their water bill. Thirty members of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, ranging in age from 1 to 70 years old, live in a cluster of trailers on 42 acres ...
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