Reader\'s Digest - 04.2020

Akiko Lame Lame and her husband, a Navy officer, relied on support from the U.S. government’s WIC food program during the four y ...

Families, a military-spouse support group, says 13 percent of military families report trouble making ends meet, compared with 7 ...

pay more in childcare than they’d make if Desirée joined the workforce. That lack of a second income is a big hit for the Mieirs ...

ever met,” he says. “They’re focused on skipping meals so that their kids have something to eat. I take great pride in the work ...

nbcuniversal archive (july 12, 2019), copyright ©2019 by nbcuniversal archive, nbcnews.com. Nonmilitary friends don’t get it: “T ...

84 april 2020 Illustrations by Nomoco ...

By Philip Gulley from the saturday evening post How I Know It’s SPRING It’s not the calendar that alerts me. In my small town, t ...

For years, spring in our town was heralded by Leon and Jo Martin, who owned the Dairy Queen. Every year, after their winter sojo ...

takes a week off in February to treat his wife to a cruise, you can bet he’ll still be wearing his coat while float- ing around ...

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O ES IN THE HEARTLAND By Henry Hurt It has been 25 years since a truck bomb ripped through a federal office building in Oklahoma ...

Among those heading toward the building that day was a man driving a large yellow truck, its sides em- blazoned with the black-l ...

the floors collapsed, sandwiching together and funneling thousands of tons of debris down toward a giant crater blasted out by t ...

For some reason, Hull stopped just a moment to pick up the dead baby and straighten out its arm. “I heard a huge gasp,” Hull say ...

FIRST RESPONDERS The initial response of local medical teams was as impressive as that of the police, fire, and rescue units. Me ...

husband tapped on the door to see whether she was OK. Quietly, a few days later, Webster checked on the young woman she had refu ...

Salyers’s greatest terror was that the crushing pressure on her head was becoming greater and greater. She prayed for calm and w ...

talking—the sound of his voice flow- ing into her brain like a glorious symphony. Salyers indicated to the man that she didn’t k ...