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Asian American seniors are often left out of the national conversation on poverty A growing population of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander seniors lack the financial resources of their younger counterparts.What would happen to SNAP if proposed $191 billion cut became law? The president's budget lists four strategies to cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by $191 billion over 10 years.Are international women’s issues being devalued in US foreign policy? Though preserved in the president's budget, the State Department’s Office of Global Women’s Issues still lacks an appointed leader.Cuts to USDA’s Rural Development Agency are a blow to rural America The Trump administration’s proposed budget eliminates almost all direct loan programs for rural businesses, utilities, and housing.Would six weeks of paid parental leave be a good step forward? The president’s budget includes a proposal to provide working parents six weeks of paid leave after childbirth or adoption.Can Red Nose Day catch on in the United States? Red Nose Day raised $21 million when it launched here in 2015, but the event raised more than five times that amount in the United Kingdom that year.