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...worse as the economy slides and nonprofits' coffers run dry. From 2004 to 2007 - when New York's economy was doing well - the number of city residents who used the Food Bank rose 24%. As of 2007, more than 1 out of every 5 New York City children relied on soup kitchens or food pantries, up 48% from 2004. In the developing world, the situation will be even worse. At the United Nations Global Assembly last month, the global-hunger charity Oxfam warned of disastrous consequences for poor countries if the financial crisis affects international aid - which was already down...
...They were persistent to the point of harassment,” Kelly, the shop clerk, said. “Some were reasonable; others would follow you. Sometimes, they pulled aside women with children...
...Young children have no trouble discussing issues of race while young teens, influenced by social taboos, avoid the topic in social settings, according to a joint study from professors at Harvard Business School and Tufts published last month. The paper, entitled “Learning (not) to talk about race: When older children underperform in social categorization,” is one of two new studies on race written by Business School Professor Michael I. Norton along with lead author Evan P. Apfelbaum, a PhD candidate at Tufts, and Samuel R. Sommers, an assistant professor at Tufts...
...going on 18, when she began showing symptoms of [schizophrenia]. We started stopping by their meetings after work and we quickly found out that, in spite of us having a child who had problems, there were so much more serious ones than ours. We ran into parents with two children who are schizophrenic, and they tried desperately to keep them at home and take care of them, and they went broke and the kids are in jail. That's when I first started finding out about the issue, how parents were losing control of their children physically, and they were...
...church, I'm not a member of any church," she said. "I get to visit a couple of churches in Alaska when I'm home, including one, Wasilla Bible Church." Church-hopping is a common practice for many religious Americans, but it is relatively unusual for Evangelicals with children to shift among a number of churches instead of belonging to one stable faith community...