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Scarlett Lillian Pauley should be building snowmen and chattering about the holidays. She should be struggling with pandemic homeschooling. She should be asking a million questions.
But in 2017, the Pittsburgh toddler died at just 16 months old. There was no obvious disease to blame or tragic accident to hold responsible. Scarlett was one of more than 80,000 who have been lost to what’s known as SUDC sudden unexplained death in childhood and SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome, the term for deaths that occur under the age of 1) over the last 25 years.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) As Oregon lawmakers mull an extension of the state moratorium on evictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, numbers show that current moratoriums haven’t done much to slow the numbers of Portland families tossed out of their homes.
Ryan Pauley was confused when his landlord tracked him down at a basketball court and handed him a three-day notice to vacate his home in northeast Portland’s Cully neighborhood.
Pauley was laid off in March, when the doggie daycare he worked for downsized because people started staying home and keeping their dogs with them. Four months later, he had exhausted his savings. In July, he couldn’t pay his $1,650 monthly rent. He was counting on state and county moratoriums prohibiting evictions where tenants can’t pay rent because of a pandemic-related income loss.