Tag: government programs
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Head Start preschools aim to fight poverty, but their teachers struggle to make ends meet
Teachers at Head Start child care centers are paid far less than public school teachers, even though they have similar credentials
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AMLO’s influence looms over kickoff of Mexico campaign to replace him
Mexico kicked off its official presidential campaign season Friday, with leading candidates taking center stage as popular outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s overwhelming influence hangs over the country’s future. Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum is the comfortable frontrunner in the June 2 election: She held a 17-point lead over top opposition candidate Xochitl…
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Scholz urges European allies to increase aid for Ukraine
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz raised pressure on European allies to increase military aid to Ukraine, using a speech at the Munich Security Conference to warn of the political and financial cost of a Russian victory. Scholz told delegates in the Bavarian capital Saturday that Germany’s military assistance for the government in Kyiv amounts to around…
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Ukraine gets long-term German and French security guarantees
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed separate long-term security deals with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron as Ukraine’s worsening artillery shortage threatens to force a further rationing of shells. The agreements sealed Friday in Berlin and Paris are designed to deter Russia from future aggression against its western neighbor after the current war…
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14 GOP-led states have turned down federal money to feed low-income kids in the summer. Here’s why
Most Republican governors turned down federal money to provide grocery help for low-income families with school-age kids over the summer
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National Archives working to clean up red powder dumped on Constitution display by protesters
Conservationists at the National Archives are still working to clean up the building’s rotunda area after a pair of protesters dumped reddish powder Wednesday afternoon on the display case housing the original U.S. Constitution
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Recession has struck some of the world’s top economies. The US keeps defying expectations
Both Japan and the United Kingdom said Thursday their economies weakened during the final three months of 2023
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Hard work and too many statistics: An EU farmer’s frustration grows with every click of the mouse
Farmers have always lived by the whim of nature, but fickle regulation they find more difficult to accept
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Governments can erase your medical debt for pennies on the dollar — and some are
Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcies in the United States, and more than 2 in 5 American adults have some. In many cases, the money people owe to health care providers forces them to cut spending on food or utilities, forgo other medical care or take on even more debt. Medical debt can…
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Kim watches missile tests and warns that North Korea will take an aggressive stance in disputed seas
North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un supervised a test of new surface-to-sea missiles and warned that the country would take a more aggressive military posture in disputed waters