We've all heard the George Carlin bit: Conservatives "will do anything for the unborn but once you're born, you're on your own...no neonatal care, no daycare, no Head Start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing."

The good news is: he's wrong! My colleagues @xan_desanctis, @MatthewMalec55 and I went through each of the 21 states that have enacted laws protecting the unborn by restricting abortion since Roe was overturned. What we found won't get reported widely, but should:

In the debt ceiling talks, Sen. @JDVance1 did something really interesting that’s (so far) flying under the radar - he proposed scaling back EV credits and plowing the savings into eliminating EITC marriage penalties @JDVance1 As a lot of folks know, the EITC effectively subsidizes cohabitation among low- and working-class couples. A paper by @michelmorek found that single moms stand to lose, on average, half of their EITC benefits ($1,300 in 2014 dollars) after they get married

Shortly after midnight 52 years ago tonight, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. In re-visiting some of the coverage from ’68, a few notes from his life have resonated unexpectedly for me. In his work rebuilding inner cities, he came to stress the importance of private industry. “He had decided that there had been too much reliance in the past upon government action, and that nothing could be done in the ghettos until there were jobs available.” (David Halberstam)

More than half of kids tell pollsters they had their own smartphone by age 11.
But half of 8- to 12-year-olds, and three-quarters of teens, say their parent do not use any tools to monitor what they are doing on that device.

From: commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/… Kids from 8-12 self-report spending a little under 5 hours a day in front of screens, while teens spend just under seven and a half hours’ worth...but those from higher-income families spend about 1:45 less each day on screens than those from lower-income families.