“Families with limited means may be more likely to want to put what money is available toward other expenses early in a young adult’s life.
At 18 or 19, for example, someone might want to use the money for education, training or other expenses involved with transitioning into adulthood. At 30, someone might want to use the money for a down payment on a house.
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children from higher-income households could be more likely to receive ongoing contributions as children into Trump Accounts and remain invested well into their 50s. As a result, the shot of building wealth is greater for those with more wealth to start.”
Texas’s selections of readings that students must read are specific selections of verses and interpretations biased toward a particular view of theology and morality. It chooses mistranslations. Texas is requiring historically misleading passages and interpretations to preach to students–an outrageous rejection of the founders’ belief in church and state separation.
These passages and interpretations don’t help one understand history or literacy, but mislead in favor of a particular historically false theological interpretation that doesn’t aid in understanding the Bible’s historical or literature value.
It’s hard to reproduce a culture and a people when you don’t have children.
“The U.S. general fertility rate hit an all-time low — again — with 53.1 live births for every 1,000 women in 2025. That’s down about 1% from the prior year”
“The school’s location, the nearby smoke, and the timing of the bombing – in the first round of strikes by US and Israeli forces – all give credence to the assertion that the school was hit as part of a series of strikes by the US and Israel on or around the IRGC complex. The US military said it was “looking into” the bombing.
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There is no indication, however, that the school is in any sense a military-use building: its classroom building and playground is walled off from the rest of the IRGC compound, and the colourful murals on its walls are visible in some satellite imagery.”
Nor were its classes exclusively reserved for children of military families
“Educators fear these immigration raids will have long-term consequences similar to the Covid-19 pandemic like increased student absences and anxiety and declining academic performance. They have already seen signs of this, with early data showing steep attendance drops despite their best efforts to keep students in their brick-and-mortar classrooms.”