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11/20/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "A Thanksgiving Prayer to End Poverty in Our Time"
Thanksgiving is a time when many Americans pause to be grateful for all we have. In the current economic downturn when the gap between rich and poor is at the highest level since the Great Depression and the unemployment rate is 10.2 percent, millions of our neighbors, including many families with children, are struggling hard to count their blessings. -
11/13/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Amen! Rev. Dr. Ray Hammond and Ella"
On November 4, 2009, about 4,000 babies in strollers, young children, parents, youths, teachers, child care providers, doctors, and grandparents rallied and strolled all around our U.S. Capitol. We told Congress that millions of children must not be left worse off after health reform and that the effective and cost effective Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) should be kept and improved rather than eliminated as the House health reform bill would do. -
11/06/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Adults! Stand Up and Help Prevent Millions of Children From Being Worse – Rather Than Better – Off After Health Reform"
Health reform bills pending in the House and the Senate would make millions of children worse off after health reform than they are now. This must not happen. The House bill eliminates the successful Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in 2013 and would move millions of children who had been in CHIP to a completely new, untested and far more expensive Health Insurance Exchange where parents will end up paying more for their children to receive fewer assured benefits. -
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.
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