by Gregory Svirnovskiy | Mar 18, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Angelica Maria Gonzalez, found out she’d been accepted to law school while living in a homeless shelter. Her world was turned upside down when she lost her child care subsidies roughly a decade ago, after an unsolicited, one time child support check...
by Gregory Svirnovskiy | Mar 11, 2020 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — As high numbers of children in the United States continue to be born into poverty, members of Congress agreed Wednesday they should do more to provide for poor families and help their children — primarily by making it easier for parents to...
by Gregory Svirnovskiy | Mar 4, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Topics
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina–Former Vice President Joe Biden won the North Carolina Democratic primary on Tuesday in decisive fashion, capturing over 40% of the state’s vote while overtaking the national delegate lead and putting Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign on the...
by Gregory Svirnovskiy | Feb 27, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Joan Lunden co-hosted her first Good Morning America episode just seven weeks after giving birth to her first child in 1980. She was lucky — ABC provided paid maternity leave when each of her children was born. Lunden is a mother to seven...
by Gregory Svirnovskiy | Feb 20, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured
WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Democrats must work to curtail the “entrepreneurship gap” at the Democratic debate in Las Vegas Wednesday, clashing with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on how to build business equity....
by Gregory Svirnovskiy | Feb 14, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured, Politics, Topics
ARLINGTON VA. — In her first public event after placing a distant fourth in the New Hampshire primary, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and her campaign remain on course in messaging at a town hall in Arlington, Va., while also laying out a strategy for the...
by Gregory Svirnovskiy | Feb 6, 2020 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – Several Democrat and Republican members of the House agreed Thursday that current federal child care policies have set families back, hurting children and disproportionately affecting poorer families. At the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood,...
by Gregory Svirnovskiy | Feb 5, 2020 | Education, Featured, SOTU2020
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will prioritize supporting working families by mandating paid leave and lowering barriers to education. Members of Congress from both parties said they agree with the sentiments, but disagree on how to implement the...
by Gregory Svirnovskiy | Jan 28, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Democrat and Republican members of Congress agreed Tuesday that the federal government should do more to help families after the arrival of a child or when family members are ill — but they couldn’t agree on how to provide that help. At a House Ways and...
by Gregory Svirnovskiy | Jan 24, 2020 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff closed the Democrats’ three-day opening arguments in the Senate trial of President Donald Trump, pleading Friday for Republican senators to call the witnesses who were prevented from testifying in the...
by Gregory Svirnovskiy | Jan 21, 2020 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The 2020 U.S. census count officially kicked off Tuesday in Southwest Alaska. Activists on Tuesday questioned whether it will once again undercount racial minorities, which means the groups lose out in allocation of federal funding and electoral...
by Gregory Svirnovskiy | Jan 15, 2020 | National Security
WASHINGTON – In the aftermath of last year’s increase in domestic extremist violence, government officials said Wednesday they need to work more closely with banks to find new ways to root out domestic terrorism. A study conducted by the Anti-Defamation League’s...