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Child Health Research Data & Publications

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01/30/12

Children in the States Factsheets 2012

These factsheets provide basic stats and rankings regarding poverty, health, hunger, child welfare, early childhood development, education and youth at risk for children in the states.

11/24/11

Child Watch® Column: "The Worst Feeling"

"Being hungry is possibly the worst feeling anyone could ever experience, and honestly, when you're hungry, you can't be productive, and you can't really do anything. And I just remember, sometimes in school I would definitely be hungry," said 17-year-old New York City high school senior Ninaad Dave.

07/15/11

Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "The State of America's Children"

The Children's Defense Fund has just released a new report, The State of America's Children 2011, which paints a disturbing portrait of child needs across our country. With rampant unemployment, housing foreclosures, homelessness, hunger, and massive looming federal and state budget cuts, children's well-being is in great jeopardy. One in five children is poor and children are our nation's poorest age group.

06/27/11

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.

06/24/11

Medicaid Works for Children and for America

Medicaid provides hundreds of millions of children who are poor or have disabilities – many from communities of color – with comprehensive health coverage that enables them to become productive, taxpaying members of society. Without Medicaid's strong protections, coverage guarantee and individualized health and mental health care, many of these children would become a financial burden on the U.S. taxpayer.

06/24/11

SNAP Works for Children and America

The Supplemental Food and Nutrition Program (SNAP), formally called Food Stamps, serves children and families by providing targeted assistance to purchase food when they need help most. Since the worst recession in decades began in December 2007, millions of low and middle income parents have lost their jobs and the security of knowing their children would never go to sleep or to school hungry. While these parents work to get their family finances back on track, SNAP has served as a critical support in ensuring their children's daily nutritional needs are met.

05/26/11

Medicaid Myths and Facts

A factsheet for advocates to rebut the myths and to arm themselves with the facts about the Medicaid program and the 38 million children to which it provides critical health services.

04/22/11

Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Children's Health on the Chopping Block"

Like many parents, California mother Anne-Marie Skinner knows "accidents happen." Her active, athletic teenagers Constance and Lucas are both involved in a number of extracurricular activities, and both have unfortunately suffered sports-related injuries that required serious medical care.

04/01/11

Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Celebrating and Protecting Health Reform for Children"

A year ago President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the "Affordable Care Act"), guaranteeing access to health coverage for 32 million uninsured people in America including 95 percent of all children. Racial minorities are disproportionately uninsured today and the Affordable Care Act will have a particularly positive impact in communities of color if allowed to go forward.

03/04/11

Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Deamonte Driver's Continuing Legacy"

Four years ago this February, an entire community was devastated in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., when 12-year-old seventh grader Deamonte Driver died after complications from a tooth abscess. His mother Alyce, who worked at low-paying jobs, had searched for a dentist to treat Deamonte's toothache who would accept Medicaid, but she was unsuccessful.

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