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10/30/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "What Are America’s Real Values?"
What is a child’s life worth? What is a child’s health worth? What is a child’s spirit, battered by preventable suffering and chronic disease, worth? What are a child’s hope and ability to learn worth? What are the true values of the world’s richest nation that is so spiritually poor that it even debates whether it can afford to give all its children the basic right to health care? -
10/23/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Can Children Get Congress To Protect Their Health?"
In 1931, Grace Abbott, the Chief of the U.S. Children’s Bureau, gave a speech about her long and frustrating workdays in our nation’s capital trying to advocate for children’s needs. She said she felt all alone standing with her baby carriage on the sidewalk watching a great traffic jam moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits. -
10/22/09
Profile of America's Uninsured Children
This factsheet provides a statistical breakdown of the uninsured child population in America, including by race/ethnicity, age, income, citizenship and state. -
10/16/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "The Annual National Observance of Children's Sabbaths® Celebration"
For many people of faith who care about children’s needs, the third weekend of October is a special celebration. Each year, on this weekend, thousands of churches, synagogues, mosques and temples across the country hold special worship services, education programs and advocacy activities to engage people of faith in the lives of children and their families. -
10/09/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "The Huge Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap"
McKinsey & Company is one of the leading management consulting companies in the world so when they turn their attention to analyzing a problem, people listen. Recently, McKinsey’s Social Sector Office has been studying a crisis affecting America’s children that has enormous repercussions for our nation. In April, they released the report "The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America’s Schools," and in it they concluded our nation’s persistent educational disparities are taking a huge economic toll. -
10/02/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Shooting Deaths of Children Rose for Second Straight Year"
I’m deeply disturbed that after a decade of decline, the number of firearm deaths among children and youths has increased for the second year in a row. Our 2009 “Protect Children, Not Guns” report released in September reveals that almost nine children and teens die from gunfire every day—one child death every two hours and 45 minutes. -
10/01/09
Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summary Fact Sheet
This summary fact sheet provides basic facts and descriptions about the systems that feed the pipeline to prison and the key steps We must take to speak out against policies that contribute to criminalizing children at younger and younger ages, and fight for policies that help children thrive and put them on track to a productive adulthood. -
10/01/09
Children's Health Coverage State Fact Sheets
These factsheets provide basic stats and rankings regarding children's health coverage in each state including data on the uninsured, those enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP, income eligibility and enrollment procedures. -
09/25/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "A Child’s Race Against a Deadly Disease"
Two-year-old Case Hogan is a bright, happy child with a sunshine smile who is in a desperate race against a degenerative disease that is causing the gradual deterioration of his body. A medical diagnosis revealed that Case has Hunters Syndrome, also known as MPS II. -
09/18/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Child Health as a Critical National Security Issue"
In April 2005, a group of scholars at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services published a policy brief on "National Security and U.S. Child Health Policy: The Origins and Continuing Role of Medicaid and EPSDT."
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