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Today at Ms. | May 5, 2025
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Our Periods Are Not Your Population Solution [[link removed]]
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(Bonnie Jo Mount / The Washington Post via Getty Images)
By Colby Siegel | The Trump administration’s latest pronatalist agenda includes a pitch for government-funded menstrual education.
This isn’t just about education. It’s about control.
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I’m a Single Mom Raising Three Kids. A Year of Guaranteed Income Gave Us Breathing Room. [[link removed]]
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(photo courtesy of Springboard to Opportunities; art by Brandi Phipps)
By Jasmine | Front & Center began as first-person accounts of Black mothers in Jackson, Miss., receiving a guaranteed income. Now in its fourth year, the series is expanding to explore broader systemic issues affecting Black women in poverty, including the safety net, healthcare, caregiving and overall well-being.
“My name is Jasmine, and I’m 33 years old. I’m a mother of three—there’s Nehemiah, my oldest, who is 13. Then there’s my daughter, Harmoni, who is 9, and my youngest, Joshun, is 8 years old. …
“Finding reliable childcare has always been a struggle. There were times when I couldn’t get a job because I couldn’t find childcare or the process of securing a childcare voucher took too long. … My mom isn’t able to help due to being ill, and I don’t hear from my dad much. So, I don’t have a lot of people I can rely on.”
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Immigrant Kids Trapped in U.S. Custody: The Hidden Crisis Inside the Office of Refugee Resettlement [[link removed]]
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By Mary Giovagnoli | A new form of family separation has been quietly engineered at the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s Unaccompanied Minors program, the HHS office responsible for the care and custody of immigrant children who enter the U.S. alone. Under President Trump’s border closures, the number of unaccompanied children entering the United States has dropped significantly, and yet, on average, each child is remaining in government custody weeks longer—even when a parent is available to reunite with their child.
Children are being detained for longer periods of time as the government increases the requirements for releasing them to parents or other family members, often with heartbreaking consequences.
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