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Unicef report finds number of children entering poverty during global recession is 2.6 million greater than number lifted out of it.
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Our country’s oldest and longest struggle has been to enlarge democracy by making it possible for more and more people to be treated equally at the polls. The right to participate in…
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Within this context, the U.S.’s elected officials seem to be the party generating a narrative that doesn’t match the evidence provided by the American public: widespread skepticism of…
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Americans forfeit more vacation days according to how much they make, according to an analysis by the US Travel Association.
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Politics aside, the issue remains deeply personal for the holdouts, Cuban-Americans of that generation say, because it continues to evoke raw feelings about ancestry, homeland and loss.…
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"One important action that the United States could take is to live up to its own laws. Of course it would be nice if it lived up to international law, but maybe that's too much to ask."
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According to new polling numbers released Thursday by PRRI, 54 percent of Americans saw immigrants as a economic plus and 35 percent as an economic burden.
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Which is all to say that the question isn't, "Why should Elizabeth Warren run for president?" It's, "Why shouldn't she?"
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Two UN rapporteurs recommended Detroit immediately resume water service for residents unable to pay their bills
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The Times' Cuba editorials correctly note that a breakthrough with Cuba would pave the way toward greater cooperation between Washington and the region.
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