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Women and their families marched to show our values, our unity and our good spirit.
With middle school graduation and summer vacation just days away, eighth-graders at San Francisco's Children's Day School should have been thinking about swimming pools and sleeping in.
Instead, on Tuesday, their minds were on gun control, mental illness and mass incarceration as they grilled one of the most powerful women in American politics about congressional inaction and the future of the country.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi heaped praise on Mayor de Blasio's Pre-K for All program at a visit to a Brooklyn prekindergarten class with the Mayor and other officials Wednesday morning.
Speaking at Public School 123 in Bushwick, the U.S. representative from California called de Blasio's universal pre-K expansion a national model that should be followed by districts across the country.
The long-endangered Republican Deficit Hawk is now extinct.
In December, the Republican Congress passed into law a huge permanent package of tax measures as part of the tax and spending deal. However, Republicans refused to pay for the legislation, thereby adding a thunderous $2 trillion to the deficit over the next two decades, according to an estimate from the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.