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With federal benefits cuts looming, Colorado is trying to protect families with children

While federal anti-poverty initiatives like the child tax credit expansion have stalled, states like Colorado are increasingly leveraging their tax codes to combat poverty.

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Program that has supported more than 533,000 affordable rental homes in rural America getting phased out

Unless the government reinvigorates the program or replaces it with something else, much of rural America’s affordable rental housing could gradually disappear.

Opinion: AI is ‘The Thneed’ of the 21st Century

AI itself shows alarming parallels to the “Fine-Something-That-All-People-Need” in more ways than one.

How Instagram addictiveness lawsuit could hold Big Tech liable

For decades, Section 230 shielded technology companies from liability for content that their users post. The K.G.M. litigation uses a different legal strategy: negligence-based product liability.

How a notorious maximum-security prison was transformed into a thriving preschool
New campaign seeks to reduce businesses’ food waste by doubling food donations

Michiganders send 1.5 to 2 million pounds of food to landfills every year, including massive amounts of perfectly edible food.

Stressed out by politics? Research shows that social media is largely to blame

Social media algorithms are designed to feed you content that provokes strong emotional reactions in order to keep you scrolling, clicking, commenting and sharing.

Kansas City neighborhood is transforming neglected housing and keeping control local

Since 2018, the Lykins Neighborhood Association has been taking on ambitious projects including using a state law to take control of abandoned homes.

How natural hydrogen, hiding deep in the Earth, could be new energy source

Natural hydrogen costs nothing to make and does not emit any carbon dioxide or other human‑caused pollutants.

How one state’s hunters are taking aim at rural hunger

Georgia hunters are allowed to kill up to 12 deer in a year, but many don’t have the freezer space to keep them all or don’t need that much meat to feed their families. Hunters for the Hungry allows them to donate the extra.

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