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Fast-Track Deportations

Thousands are being deported without a chance to appear before an immigration judge.

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Christopher Pratt

February, 2010
More Struggling With Hunger
The news: More than 49 million people didn't have enough food in 2008, an increase of 13 million people to reach a record high, according to a new survey by the U.S. Department of Agriculture using U.S. Census data. Behind the news: Many people in Illinois qualify for food stamps and don't get them. An estimated $85 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits...
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December, 2009
H1N1 Virus Takes Toll On Minorities
The news: According to an August report by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, a fall resurgence of the H1N1 virus could "cause between 30,000 and 90,000 deaths in the U.S., concentrated among children and young adults." Behind the news: More than half of 36 children who died from the H1N1 virus between May and July were from racial or ethnic minority...
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