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5Apr

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MONEY

Everything You Need To Know To Claim The Child Tax Credit This Tax Filing Season

The monthly child tax credit payments may be over, but families now face a new hurdle: Filing for the remaining portion they’re owed. An estimated 40 million households will be applying for the benefit this tax filing season, which, thanks to a bevy of coronavirus-related claims, is already expected to come with significant challenges and delays. The child tax credit, which was expanded to more people and for a larger amount in early 2021, was designed to arrive in two chunks in 2021 to nearly all families with children. The first payments were in six monthly increments. The second would come with families’ tax returns in 2022 — if they know how to get it. “There’s a huge, huge knowledge gap here,” said Jen Burdick, a lawyer at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia who has been helpi...

Charter Schools Are Not As ‘Public’ As They Claim To Be, Here’s Why

30Sep

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EDUCATION

Charter Schools Are Not As ‘Public’ As They Claim To Be, Here’s Why

Kevin Welner, University of Colorado Boulder Proponents of charter schools insist that they are public schools “open to all students.” But the truth is more nuanced. As an education policy researcher – and as author of a new book about charter schools I wrote with fellow researcher Wagma Mommandi – I have discovered that charter schools are not as accessible to the public as they are often made out to be. This finding is particularly relevant in light of the fact that charter school enrollment reportedly grew at a rapid rate during the pandemic. Specifically, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, enrollment increased 7% from 2019-20 to 2020-21. The organization says that is the biggest enrollment jump in a half-decade. In our book, we identify and describe 13 di...

Why soldiers can’t claim conscientious objection if ordered to suppress protests

4Apr

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IMPACT

Why soldiers can’t claim conscientious objection if ordered to suppress protests

President Trump’s order that National Guard should “dominate” the streets of Washington, D.C., during recent protests troubled at least a few of the men and women compelled to do the dominating. Most of the 84,000 Guard members activated in 33 states between May 29 and June 13 escorted ambulances and protected businesses from being damaged. Those in Washington, however, were instructed to use aggressive tactics to clear protesters. National Guard troops serving in the District dispersed a peaceful demonstration in Lafayette Park by buzzing the crowd with a Black Hawk helicopter and marching in lockstep with police who sprayed demonstrators with rubber bullets and tear gas. One D.C. Guard member later told reporters that, “We didn’t join the military to kill our fellow citizens.” Another...

23Oct

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Journalism

Trump claim brings pain to relatives of lynching victims

The president's comments were ill-informed at best and racist at worst, relatives of lynching victims say. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice honours thousands of people killed in racist lynchings in Montgomery, Alabama [File: Brynn Anderson/AP] Willie Edwards Jr, a black truck driver, was killed by Ku Klux Klansmen who forced him to jump off a bridge in Alabama in 1957. Two years earlier, white men bludgeoned black teenager Emmett Till to death in Mississippi. No one went to prison for either slaying. Both people died in racist lynchings and relatives of each were aghast on Tuesday after President Donald Trump compared his own possible impeachment to lynching - racist killings, often to incite terror, that took an estimated 4,400 black lives over...

Judge weighs bid to dismiss child sex abuse claim against Cosby

4Apr

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IN OTHER NEWS

Judge weighs bid to dismiss child sex abuse claim against Cosby

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Craig Kaplan said at the end of the hearing he would take arguments from both sides "under submission" and render a written decision at an undisclosed date. Cosby, 78, lost a previous bid to fend off the same lawsuit on similar grounds last year, a fact Kaplan noted during Thursday's proceedings. He added that Cosby's latest challenge to the case "just seems like a second bite at the same apple". Cosby's accuser, Judy Huth, now in her 50s, sued the entertainer in December 2014, alleging that he plied her with alcohol and molested her during an encounter at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 1974. Cosby's attorneys have called Huth's account a fabrication, asserted that her case stemmed from a failed extortion attempt and argued that she waited too...