“STOP THE SHUTDOWN, PREVENT ECONOMIC MELTDOWN”
Since the government was forced to shut down on October 1st one of the most common refrains has been that some members of Congress are acting [...]
Read MoreSince the government was forced to shut down on October 1st one of the most common refrains has been that some members of Congress are acting [...]
Read More“In 2009, the city adopted universal pre-kindergarten . . . and frankly, it is some of the best money that we could ever spend. Those [...]
Read MoreDoctors told Jaime Gonzalez’s parents that his birth defects were so severe he probably wouldn’t live to age one. When he did, doctors told them [...]
Read More“There’s something evil in our society that we as Americans have to work to try and eradicate…I would like you to put my trauma center [...]
Read MoreOn September 30th friends and supporters of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) will gather at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. to celebrate CDF’s 40th [...]
Read MoreThese are the words of an 18-year-old who recently graduated from high school in a high-poverty neighborhood in the nation’s capital: “Where I live, which [...]
Read More“You see a lot of teachers judge and stigmatize their students based on where they come from. A lot of my teachers thought that since [...]
Read MoreIn a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the [...]
Read More“Dear President Obama . . . Guns are really easy to get and people think they need them to protect themselves, but most times they’re [...]
Read More“I would say that, well, obviously my high school didn't prepare me for college.” --Darryl Briggs, youth leader and college student The third of [...]
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