Roughly 18.5 million of children under age 18 in America have one or more parents who were born outside of the U.S.—that’s about one quarter of our children.
Earlier this month, the Trump Administration proposed a change to the way the threshold for poverty is calculated that would slowly cut off federal assistance to millions of people.
“He will be forever 3 years old.” These were the words of Arika Williams shortly after her 3-year-old son Aiden accidentally shot and killed himself last year in South Carolina.
When Teresa Todd, an elected official, government lawyer and single mother, saw three siblings struggling along a dark West Texas highway, she didn’t hesitate. She pulled over and went into “mom mode.”