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US Elections
fromBuzzFeed
4 days ago

Former US Residents, Tell Us Why You Left And Your Unfiltered Thoughts About America Right Now

Record numbers of Americans are leaving the country, citing exhaustion from financial stress, lack of work-life balance, inadequate healthcare, and political polarization compared to better social systems abroad.
NYC parents
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 week ago

Letters: Meeting needs of mothers helps care for children

Basic sanitary products for mothers and diapers for children should be universally accessible as fundamental human rights, requiring policy changes to provide free menstrual products and permanent publicly funded diaper banks.
Public health
fromScary Mommy
2 months ago

Motherhood Didn't Make Me Brave. It Made Me Furious.

Parenting demands urgent advocacy, exposing how limited social safety nets force families to rely on kindness, community, and resilience to meet basic needs.
fromThe Mercury News
3 months ago

Letters: Why doesn't Trump sue Texas over voting maps?

As a senior citizen on Medicare and SNAP, I feel like I can speak to both issues. Our country is now being run by a narcissistic president. He does not care about the poor, working people, homeless people or poor immigrants just trying to make a living. He is letting these people go hungry, and he is trying to take away medical assistance for them, and deporting almost all immigrants.
US politics
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Top 10 US billionaires' collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year report

Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth rose $698bn in one year while widening income gaps, high relative poverty, and weakened social supports concentrate wealth and hardship.
US politics
fromThe Mercury News
4 months ago

Letters: Trump succeeds in Mideast where diplomats have failed

Trump eased Middle East tensions with Netanyahu, while administration cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, and foreign aid shifted support away from vulnerable people.
US politics
fromSan Jose Spotlight
8 months ago

Santa Clara County could lose millions in food assistance - San Jose Spotlight

The federal government is cutting $186 billion from SNAP, impacting low-income families and shifting costs to states.
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