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Near poor live paycheck to paycheck
More than half of the near poor in the United States are white, half live in homes headed by a married couple, and half live in the suburbs, researchers say.
The U.S. stimulus bill geared toward creating construction jobs for U.S. citizens will likely end up providing work for illegal immigrants, studies predict.
Lawmakers continue to battle on whether or not to loosen immigration laws, particularly on the possibility of allowing illegal immigrants from Mexico to stay le
A novel program at the New America Foundation aims to increase financial security among the working poor by promoting public policy that encourages saving, according to the director of the project.
Programs that promote sexual abstinence reduce sexually transmitted diseases, out-of-wedlock childbearing and other consequences of sex among teenagers, accordi
The increasingly visible influence of think tanks upon public policy may be turning these traditionally low-profile, intellectually rarefied institutions into t

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Palestinian  Security Forces Patrol the Border With Egypt.
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A members of the Hamas security forces patrol the border area between Gaza and Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip May 20, 2013. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again for four days, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, As Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military zone. Palestinian security forces patrol around the border, witnesses said. UPI/Ismael Mohamad