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Federal cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program could cause some DC-area families to lose an average of $187 in monthly benefits.
Over half of children of immigrants are bilingual Bilingualism is an asset to children of immigrants and should be supported and nurtured.Seven things you should know about childhood poverty Childhood poverty can have lifelong consequences-- and these consequences can even stretch into future generations.We don’t know how many Latinos are affected by the criminal justice system Latinos are a fast-growing portion of both the US population and the correctional population, but we don’t know how many Latinos are in prison, on probation, or arrested.Will the cities of the future work for everyone? By 2050, two thirds of the world’s population will live in cities.Americans are moving less, leading to fewer mortgages and defaults and more renovations Americans have been moving less since 1990. What does this mean for the mortgage market?