By Clara Wong, age 14 On March 9, Biden proposed a minimum 25% tax rate to be imposed upon America’s billionaires, referred to as the “billionaire tax.” Billionaires are not thrilled. Every year, the president submits a fiscal budget to Congress that holds documents containing information on government funding. All budgetary publications must then be …
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By Aisha Siddiqa Hassim, age 13 Earlier this year, parts of Turkey and Syria faced two catastrophic earthquakes. The combined effects of these earthquakes were disastrous and resulted in the death of over 50,000 people. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is facing criticism over the lack of preparedness and slow response after the earthquakes. The …
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Muhammad Hasnain Hassim, age 11 and IndyKids staff The world’s governments reached an agreement on March 4, 2023, at the United Nations on the new High Seas Treaty, an international pact to protect marine life and stop pollution in the high seas. The high seas are international waters where no country’s government has rules restricting …
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By Maliyah Ledesma, age 11 and IndyKids staff In the world we live in today, we rely on technology more by the second, so it’s easy for young folks to get lost mindlessly scrolling. This is why social media platform TikTok announced in March that they would be implementing a new default setting with safeguards …
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BY Nadya Serrano, age 9 Adhara Pérez, an 11-year-old girl from Veracruz, Mexico, is now one of Forbes’ 100 most powerful women in Mexico. At just 9 years old, her IQ was already 162, which is two whole points higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking and 70 points higher than the average person! She …
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By Abigail Bodden, age 10 Judy Heumann, known as “the mother” of the disability rights movement, passed away on March 5, 2023. Heumann was a lifelong advocate for disability rights internationally. In 1977, she led a 26-day sit-in in San Francisco, which paved the way for the Americans with Disabilities Act, which now protects disabled …
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By Anya Rothman-Cimino, age 11 Recently, legislatures across the country have been slowly but surely taking away trans youths’ rights. According to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, approximately 450 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced already this year. During an interview on The Daily Show, President Joe Biden spoke out against the anti-trans bills in …
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By Grace Stevens, age 12
You have to be at least 16 to get a job in the United States… right? It turns out that in the past five years, there has been a 70% increase in the number of children illegally employed by companies, according to the Department of Labor, and at least 10 states have introduced or passed laws rolling back child labor protections in the past two years.
By Miloš van den Bosch, age 11 and IndyKids staff
A U.N. report published in January on the Montreal Protocol announced that the hole in the ozone layer is on track to recover by 2040.
By Cat Woodcock, age 11 and IndyKids staff Similar to the infamous Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection in the United States, angry Bolsonaro supporters stormed the National Congress of Brazil and other federal government buildings in the capital, Brasília, on Jan. 8, 2022. The events took place one week after the new leftist President Lula da …
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