“INSURING TAYLOR’S FUTURE”
Leigh Bernard expects her seven-year-old twin daughters Taylor and Sydney to grow into productive, self-sufficient adults. That shouldn't be an unreasonable expectation as they're both [...]
Read More“BRIDGET’S BATTLE”
Desni and Bob Crock want their two-year-old daughter Bridget to have everything she needs to fight the rare cancer that's attacking her lung, but they [...]
Read More“A SONG FOR ANNA”
Bill La Croix began singing to his daughter Anna as soon as she was born. Picking his banjo, he sang to his little blue-eyed girl [...]
Read More“NATIONAL FOSTER CARE MONTH”
May is National Foster Care Month and this year is a good time to reflect on the progress we can make in improving the lives of children [...]
Read More“INSURANCE CEOS GET RICH WHILE DENYING HEALTH COVERAGE TO CHILDREN”
Katie Hebert, age 4, is a very sick little girl. She gets severe seizure-like attacks that can last 11 hours from an undiagnosed neuro-developmental disorder. [...]
Read More“THE NATIONAL DAY TO PREVENT TEEN PREGNANCY”
After falling for many years, the teen pregnancy rate is again on the rise. According to a report released in March by the National Center for [...]
Read More“WHATEVER IT TAKES”
Whatever It Takes. That's the title of the recent book by New York Times Magazineeditor Paul Tough about Geoffrey Canada, a vice chair of the Children's [...]
Read More“NATIONAL CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH”
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month—a good time for us to look at the child abuse and neglect crisis in America. The statistics are shocking: [...]
Read More“A PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN CAN COVER ALL OF OUR CHILDREN”
It's plain that our nation's health insurance system is broken: 46 million people in America lack health coverage—nine million of them children—and the number of [...]
Read More“DR. JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN—SCHOLAR, TEACHER, ACTIVIST, FRIEND”
On March 25, beloved historian John Hope Franklin, the nation's leading scholar of Black history, passed away at age 94. Dr. Franklin became a scholar of [...]
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