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🏛️Congress is going into the final rounds of negotiations on the latest infrastructure package, and this one supposedly has garnered bipartisan support. While there is money for roads, bridges, and other “traditional” infrastructure projects in it, the plan also includes billions for funding partisan priorities...
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Proponents of the American Families Act argue that a major expansion of government spending on child care and preschool will not only help parents, but will also result in lasting benefits and improved life outcomes for children.

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Participants in the Perry Preschool Project enjoyed significant and lasting improvements in life outcomes.
B. Based on Perry Preschool Project research, we can expect most American children to experience similar benefits.
C. Head Start, the existing, major government-funded childcare and early education program, has not generated benefits for program participants.
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The Fourth of July has just passed, but it's more important than ever to teach the kids in your life about America’s founding and why there’s good reason to feel proud to be an American. Especially today, when so many public figures—from famous entertainers and athletes to media figures and prominent left-wing politicians—spew hateful messages about America, it’s important to help kids understand they live in the world’s greatest and freest nation.
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Anti-Semitism continues to be on the rise in the United States, which does not have a domestic anti-Semitism czar in the White House. The recent unprecedented wave of violent assaults targeting Jews on the streets of our cities makes the need for creating this White House position more urgent than ever before.
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