Reading Room: White House Releases Child Tax Credit Resource
The Child Tax Credit (CTC) is a tax credit created in 1997 to help working families offset the cost of raising children. The American Rescue Plan Act, passed by…
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Juneteenth
Juneteenth, an annual holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, has been celebrated by African-Americans since the late 1800s. On June 19, 1865, enslaved African-Americans in…
Reading Room: Racism in the USA: Ensuring Asian American Health Equity
Racist anti-Asian incidents and rhetoric in the USA have been on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic, by some accounts increasing as much as 150%. The horrific mass shooting on…
Reading Room: What is the History of Pride Month ?
The Stonewall Riots weren’t the first time that LGBTQ+ people stood up against police harassment — before Stonewall, there was a riot in Los Angeles at Cooper Do-Nuts, and in San…
Reading Room: Implicit Bias
A quarter-century ago, social psychologist Anthony Greenwald of the University of Washington developed a test that exposed an uncomfortable aspect of the human mind: People have deep-seated biases of…
Reading Room: Getting the Facts: Vaccine Awareness & Slowing the Spread
Vaccines are here. What you need to know.How the COVID-19 vaccines work• COVID-19 vaccines help your body develop immunity to the virus that causes COVID-19without you getting the virus.•…