Author: unitedfamilies

How Public Housing Encourages Single Parenthood and Penalizes Marriage

The post-pandemic rise in rents has fueled the view that the private housing market inevitably fails those of modest means. The left-leaning Center for Budget Policies and Priorities summarizes the idea that the short-term spike in rents merely dramatizes that essential market failure. It asserts that the “rent burden among families with the lowest incomes is a long-standing issue. . .primarily due to the gap between families’ incomes and their rent costs.” The situation cries out, the authors continue, for increased federal rental assistance.

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Multiple sclerosis patient postpones her euthanasia

Belén, the 54-year-old woman suffering from multiple sclerosis, asked to postpone indefinitely the euthanasia that had been granted to her. She did so by means of a notarial act before the Health Council of Galicia (Spain).

The decision comes weeks after her mother, at the advice of Christian Lawyers Foundation, did not open the door to the doctors who came to her daughter’s home on November 2 to take her to be euthanized.

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