By Nicolle Berroa, age 13 and IndyKids Staff Winter Storm Uri hit Texas in February and caught everyone off guard. The unusually bitter cold weather put a massive strain on energy demand and available electricity as the infrastructure around natural gas, coal, nuclear and wind energy froze up. Climate change has a profound economic cost …
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By Sami El-Hajjar, age 11 Carlos Rodriguez Herrera was a barista at a Mediterranean restaurant in New York City. But on March 14, right after the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, he was told not to come back to work. “I don’t know how I’m going to pay the rent in the coming month,” …
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The U.S. presidential election is coming up! Find out where the candidates stand on important issues.
Learn about how the global economic crisis lead to resistance the spread throughout the globe.
When people in New York City held a protest on Wall Street in September, they decided to stay there. The protesters wanted to let people know that just one percent of people in the country have far too much wealth and power over the lives of everybody else.
It has been two years since President Barack Obama was elected. Let’s take a look at the promises he made on four key issues and what he has accomplished so far.
On February 1, President Obama released his budget for next year. He says the new budget will use “common sense” to fix some of the financial problems facing the country.
A group of 20 of the world’s largest economies (the G-20) is meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in September.
In the past 10 years, more than $16 billion of the public’s money has been spent for stadium construction and upkeep from coast to coast.
Shantytowns Flourish as Economy Worsens
