By Nala Annes, Age 11 and IndyKids staff
The expiration of Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) has pushed nearly 4 million children back into poverty. The act, which was introduced in March 2021, increased monthly payments low-income families received, and reportedly kept 6.3 million children out of poverty, reducing overall child poverty in the United States by 43%.
The Birthday Party Project is a nonprofit that throws birthday parties for homeless children.
In areas that have few grocery stores, the only options around may be fast food and convenience stores that only sell high-fat, high-sugar snacks. The food justice movement seeks to make sure everyone has access to healthy foods and knows what goes into making a nutritious meal.
Today in 2014, 50 years after the passage of the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964, much is still left to be done. In many ways, the battles fought in the past share similar themes with challenges we face today.
In the documentary film, Inequality for All, Robert Reich explores why the United States has so much income inequality, and why the financial gap between the rich and the poor is widening.
Occupy Wall Street protests picked up with spring’s warm weather to protest the extreme wealth of just one percent of the people in the United States.
Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich said that New York City’s public school custodians, who clean and repair schools, should be fired so that poor kids can take their jobs.
The United States is ranked the wealthiest nation in the world, yet almost half of all Americans are considered to be in poverty or low-income.
The problem with jobs? Too few people have them. The official unemployment rate is 9%: almost one out of every ten working people can’t find a job.
Find out how you can take action through the Girl Up campaign to change the lives of girls around the world!
