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Study May Undercut Idea That Cash Payments to Poor Families Help Child Development

Rigorous new research appears to show that monthly checks intended to help disadvantaged children did little for their well-being, adding a new element to a dispute over expanded government aid.

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The test targeted children in their earliest years, leaving open the possibility that benefits will appear later, after they start school.
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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow NIH to Cut DEI-Related Grants

A district court judge declared some of the administration’s cuts ‘void and illegal.’

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A rally against the Trump administration’s health care policies in front of the National Institutes of Health Gateway Center in Bethesda, Md., in May.
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H.H.S. Finalizes Thousands of Layoffs After Supreme Court Decision

Staff members who were first notified of terminations in April were finally let go late Monday.

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the Capitol on Tuesday.
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