The deadliest tornado in U.S. history killed nearly 700 people across parts of southeast Missouri, southern Illinois and southern Indiana.

Nationally, the cost of raising a child is nearly $16,000 annually, and as costs for key basic needs, such as housing and food, have climbed in recent years, so too has the cost of child-rearing.

A rare EF-0 tornado tore through a Pico Rivera neighborhood early Thursday morning, leaving a four-block trail of toppled ...