U.S. Department of Health and Human Services U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development U.S. Department of Education Policy Statement on Meeting the Needs of Families with Young Children Experiencing and At Risk of Homelessness October 31, 2016 Excerpt from the report : Recent data indicate that among persons who seek shelter because they are homeless in the United States, the age group most likely to experience homelessness includes newborns or infants in the first year of life, and...

It’s no wonder criminal-justice reformers woke up from Election Day 2016 with a sense of existential gloom. Given candidate Donald J. Trump’s law-and-order bluster, his dystopian portrayal of rising crime and an ostensible war on the police, and a posse of advisers who think the main problem with incarceration is that we don’t do enough of it, the idea that justice reformers have anything to look forward to is at best counterintuitive. It is reasonable to expect that President Trump and his...

IKEA's known for doing some pretty cool stuff, like raising money for Syrian refugees by building typical replica homes, to turning kids' drawings into stuffed animals . However, it looks like the retailer is also extending the goodness to their employees as well: by offering new parents 4 months of fully-paid paternity and maternity leave. U.S. businesses aren't typically world-renowned when it comes to vacation, sick, and maternity paid leaves when compared to other first-world countries.