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• There are 1.5 million children who are homeless in America. That means one out of every 50 children is homeless. (CBS News)
• An average of 14 deaths per day happens at U.S. workplaces. (ABC's Nightline)
• The most common form of litter: cigarette butts. And they contain some toxins. (NBC)
• In 2008, the last year of the Bush presidency, the Bush administration denied 47,000 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. In 2009, the first year of the Obama presidency, the Obama administration denied 70,000 FOIA requests. (Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC)
• "When cheaters prosper, it drives honesty out of the market." --William K. Black, author of "The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One." On the Bill Moyers Journal show, Black talked about the alleged fraud of Goldman Sachs investment bank. He said, "If you don't regulate, you create a 'criminogenic' environment for fraud." (PBS)
• Singer Lena Horne died in May 2010. She was the first African-American entertainer to have a Hollywood contract in movies. Her most famous song was "Stormy Weather." Her scenes in movies where cut out of the movies when they were shown in the South in the 1940s and 1950s. She left a USO tour during WWII in protest after she saw that black soldiers were seated at the rear, even behind the German POWs. (CNN)