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Child tax credit; Miss Hmong Minn.

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🎙️Coming up on Morning Edition: A new child tax credit could give families facing poverty the extra support they need. Listen in for more on that and all of today's news.
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Minnesota bets on child tax credit to cut poverty. Will it work?

The prediction is bold: Gov. Tim Walz and DFL legislative leaders say a new child tax credit will slash child poverty in Minnesota by one-third.
“Minnesota is going to enact not just a nation-leading, but a global-leading child tax credit that will reduce childhood poverty faster than anyplace else,” Walz told a celebratory Capitol rally crowd days after the Legislature adjourned.
Statistically, the poverty rate decline is a real possibility based on research around the effects of a similar federal tax effort during the pandemic. But how it plays out on a more practical level — the ability for families to afford shelter, food and other essentials on a sustained basis — could be trickier and take longer to nail down.

Meet Leeanna Lor, Miss Hmong Minnesota pageant winner and burn unit nurse

Leeanna Lor always dreamed of walking the stage at St. Paul’s RiverCentre as Miss Hmong Minnesota.
Lor’s childhood dream came true when she was crowned Miss Hmong Minnesota 2023 during November’s Hmong New Year celebration. She shares the court with two other contestants who came in second and third place.
“It’s building in sisterhood,” said Mee Vang, president of United Hmong Family, the local nonprofit that organizes the pageant. “The Hmong pageant has really transformed into an opportunity to showcase the Hmong culture, language and clothing for a lot of our younger generations because we lost our identity moving to the U.S.”
Her purpose as the pageant winner now is twofold: representing the Hmong community in Minnesota and increasing education among Hmong people on health topics like burn prevention.

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After a stormy winter, most of Minnesota has seen an unusually quiet spring. While there’ve been some torrential rains and scattered reports of high winds or hail, overall it’s the quietest it has been in the region for more than a decade.
Clinic, physicians challenge revised North Dakota abortion laws in ongoing lawsuit. Attorneys for the Red River Women's Clinic and several physicians filed their amended complaint on Monday in state district court.
The Denver Nuggets have won the NBA Finals for the first time in the team's history. The Nuggets defeated the Miami Heat by a score of 94-89, winning the best-of-seven series in five games.
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The U.S. says it wants to rejoin UNESCO after exiting during the Trump administration. The U.S. could reenter the cultural and educational body several years after it pulled out of the group citing an "anti-Israel bias" and other concerns.
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