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Single parent homes and black poverty levels with more than half of black children born to single parent homes even today. The barriers to getting out of poverty and the barriers to getting a better education are much higher for children born in single parent homes.

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Reliance Industries and the huge increase in the price of shares in all the Reliance family enterprieses in oil and communications.

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The impact on families of thousands fentanyl deaths in America each year for the last decade. NYT looks at one such family and the turmoil and struggles of this family in 2025.

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Nawaz Sharif's wife Kulsoom is expected to win the parliamentary seat from which the former prime minister was ousted by a decision of the Supreme Court.

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From Warren Court 1953-1969 at 72% score for pro-Civil rights in Burger court 1969-1986 score of 52%, under Roberts it is same at 52% in 2026, basically a 50-50 rulings on civil rights and minorities. Even though it appears much has changed with appointment of new Justices by DJT not too much has changed, except a fair amount of skepticism added and more questions asked about the real impact of decisions and how they play out in real life. In real lifer some things work out differently than intended. Amy Coney Barrett is one of the Justices with no particular leanings as shown in the interview on C-SPAN by Rubinstein recently even though she is from Notre Dame and appointed by DJT with an enriched family life.

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US Forest Service agency plans to relocate it to Utah from Washington DC. The idea is to relocate to the communities it serves by placing 15 state directors to regions NFS serves. Salt Lake City's family focused life, its international airport and its lower cost of living are seen as attractive for recruitment. Utah is also one of the mountain states where large forests are located in the western US. Tom Schultz, head of the Forest Service says -"This is about building a Forest Service that is nimble, efficient, effective and closer to the forests and communities it serves." A network of centers of US Forest Service will also be used to redistribute personnel to regions and states- including ones at Colorado, Georgia, New Mexico, Montana, Wisconsin and California.

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Donald Trump is seen as a polarizing person in Kallstadt, Germany, the home of his dad Fred Trump's father. There are very few signs of the family in the town. The media frenzy is not something the locals like.

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Friedrich Drumpf left Germany at the age of 16, coming to the U.S. in 1885. He came back to Germany to find a wife after running restaurants in California during the time of the Gold Rush. When he tried to return to hsi home town because of his wife was homesick he was expelled a s a draft dodger for missing military service. Kallstadt is a wine producing region. Drumpf was tenacious and keen on getting ahead, a trait that marked his son Fred Trump who built state financed housing in the FDR period in New York, and his on Donald Trump who went into luxury housing. Biographer Gwenda Blair says all members of the family were good at finding loopholes, saving money, and shared the family culture of knowing who the audience is that they are targeting. This is why says Bair that Trump is at ease in being a onetime Democrat, now Republican, sometime liberal and sometimes conservative, and can appeal to people in different ways that would be impossible for most politicians, even people on opposite sides for different reasons. Gwenda Blair is author of two books on the Trump family. "Trumps- Three Generations That Built an Empire," and "Donald Trump: Master Apprentice."     ...

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Kimberly Clark will raise prices on Huggies diapers and wipes by 3-7%. Procter & Gamble said it will raise prices on Pampers diapers 7% and wipes by 3%. Consumers tend to switch brands for bleach, bottled water and soap, but recent surveys have shown only 10% will do so for baby products.

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Facebook announced changes in June 2016 for the way its algorithm for news feed will work with increasing importance for content that is posted by the friends and family of users. The impact of this change is that the content directly posted by publishers will now get less importance. Under the Instant Articles initiative Facebook had previously given publishers a way to reach the larger social media audience it attracts. This now changes with publishers reminded of the uncertainty in the way social media sites continue to change their algorithm.

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New Hampshire, Colorado, Maryland and Oregon roll out new state laws for family leave. New York is expanding paid family leave including care of siblings. Nine other states have similar laws for family leave.

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Scenes showing prince Philip riding a children's tricycle with Elizabeth chasing them and Charles, Anne on bikes, all laughing and having a good time. This will be shown in a BBC documentary-Prince Philip- the Royal Family Remembers.