As Congress considers the renewal of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) over the next few weeks and months, we are pushing legislators to [...]
Read MoreAs a civil rights lawyer in the 1960s, I saw courageous college students organizing Freedom Schools in Mississippi to prepare desperately poor, semi-literate, and disenfranchised [...]
Read MoreIn President George W. Bush's May 31st National Child's Day proclamation, he pledged to provide our children "with the care, protection and education they deserve." [...]
Read MoreMarc Bostic has the look of someone shaped on the football field and by years of practicing martial arts. He's a handsome, well-educated man who [...]
Read MoreHealth coverage in America shouldn't be like the stock market that dispassionately picks winners and losers. But insufficient funding of government health insurance programs combined [...]
Read MoreAbout this time each year, Hollywood releases blockbuster movies featuring superheroes—typically a man in tights and maybe a cape opposing a master villain. Fiction aside, [...]
Read MoreChildren get sick occasionally. Parents expect it and always hope they never get anything more than a cold, but they want to be prepared for [...]
Read MoreThe Children's Defense Fund is in the midst of a national campaign to convince Congress and the President to enact legislation this year to extend [...]
Read MoreWe must face the hard truth that firearms are so easy to acquire in the United States that lethal mass shootings are mathematically inevitable. Our [...]
Read MoreFor too many of the nine million uninsured children in America, the lack of health coverage can literally mean the difference between life and death. [...]
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