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Three million children could be affected as the largest investment in child care in U.S. history expires in September.

Most unhoused people are from in state and desire to find housing, while Black and older people are disproportionately affected

The former Berkeley mayor's record of accomplishments from civil rights activism to groundbreaking political initiatives to far-sighted community economic development programs to global solidarity and elder statesman leadership could fill volumes.

"Pausing disenrollment was a tremendous act of social welfare; restarting it is criminal," tweeted a single-payer advocate who helps people enroll in Medicaid.

The serial ice ages that erased and repopulated Canada like a palimpsest have yielded to a fire age that is rewriting history with flame. An interglacial period has morphed into an epoch in its own right. Call it the Pyrocene.

State lawmakers worked hard to convince utilities and construction union members that they would not end up on the chopping block.

Those concerned with antisemitism must understand what it truly means to challenge it as part of movements for justice.

"Until our nation's leaders invest the great riches of this nation in ensuring equal justice for all, beginning with the poor and low-wealth of this nation, we cannot be silent," said Rev. Dr. William J. Barber.

CIA impunity in 1988. U.S. imperialism's baby steps in 1898. Free speech for Nazis in 1978. U.S. responsibility for Vietnam War in 1971. Smallpox-infected presents in 1763. Voting wrongs, not rights, in 2013. Haymarket prisoners pardoned in 1893.