“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 MoreMay 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 MoreKatie 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 MoreAfter 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 MoreWhatever 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 MoreApril 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 MoreIt'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 MoreOn 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 [...]
Read MoreMabel Pichardo is a self-employed mother of two young children from New York City. She earned approximately $31,000 last year making ends meet through three [...]
Read MoreTo the horror of us all, Deamonte Driver, a seventh grader from Prince George's County, Maryland, died of complications from an abscessed tooth on February [...]
Read MoreWe rarely see headlines that read: "Prostitute Arrested for Soliciting" because such law enforcement incidents are so commonplace. But behind the thousands of stories about [...]
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