Across Tennessee I meet parents who are terrified — not because they don’t work hard, but because the math no longer works. A flat paycheck, rising rent, higher medicine costs and groceries that keep ...

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A nonpartisan think tank this week released a damning 43-page report that accuses a federal program that exists to assist single mothers of having a history “steeped in racist ideas and policies” that ...

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