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Annie Gowen, The Washington Post: "A growing number of American children are living in poverty and with unemployed parents, and are facing the threat of hunger, according to a new federal report released yesterday. According to 'America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being,' 18 percent of all children 17 and under were living in poverty in 2007 - up from 17 percent in 2006."

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Boxer Faces "Challenge of a Lifetime" on Climate Change Bill

Rob Hotakainen, McClatchy Newspapers: "If the Senate doesn't pass a bill to cut global warming, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer says, there will be dire results: droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more. She says there's a huge upside, however, if the Senate does act: millions of clean-energy jobs, reduced reliance on foreign oil and less pollution for the nation's children."

http://www.truthout.org/071309G?n



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