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March 25, 2024
…clothes, water, gas. Amna Nawaz: Providing for 13-year-old Whitnee (ph), 5-year-old Rowen (ph), and 3-year-old twins Trinitee (ph) and Legaciee (ph) in their hometown of Ville Platte, Louisiana, is a…
March 21, 2024
…if they’re rental properties. Small rental buildings in The Bronx are valued more highly than those in Brooklyn. Median assessed home values in Manhattan are lower than those in the…
March 14, 2024
…“dystopian science fiction movie” is a shining example of a luxury belief, the phrase coined by Rob Henderson to connote ideas and opinions held by the affluent or privileged that are…
March 14, 2024
…ideology that privileges racial heritage over the best interests of the child. It is true that the federal Indian Child Welfare Act requires efforts to place a foster child with…
March 11, 2024
…of goodness and malice is exhibiting an authoritarian moral sensibility that’s ill-suited to inclusive leadership in democratic schools. We’ve found that being on the wrong side of conventional wisdom in…
March 8, 2024
…points for two years on the median priced home. About 3.5 million middle-class families are expected to benefit. Problem: This proposal would increase demand for starter homes, which are already…
March 5, 2024
…status quo. A custodian needs to recognize when things have stopped working or gotten out of whack. Part of the job is to put things right. But a custodian does…
March 4, 2024
…benefit parameters that took effect October 1, 2023. Shelter costs are assumed to be $1,146 monthly for a single parent without children (median gross rent for a one-bedroom apartment in…
March 4, 2024
…of happiness,” poll after poll is telling us that millions of Americans are failing at this most important Jeffersonian pursuit, with happiness hitting “record lows” in recent years, according to…
March 1, 2024
…On March 31, 1905, Chicagoans Jane Addams and Mary McDowell joined Lillian D. Wald, founder of New York’s Henry Street Settlement, and Edward T. Devine, editor of the journal Charities,…