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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." -
09/17/09
Without Improvements Health Reform Could Leave Millions of Children Worse Off
Health reform is taking shape in a way that could leave millions of children worse–rather than better–off at the same time that insurance companies and drug companies stand to make billions in additional profits. Under the current health proposals, millions of children could face higher costs for health coverage and have fewer benefits. Health care reform is complicated, but ensuring that children have access to the health care they need to grow up healthy is not. This factsheet details the three elements that would make it simple for all children to enroll in affordable and comprehensive health coverage, no matter what type of health care system Congress decides to implement. -
09/16/09
Protect Children, Not Guns 2009
This report provides key findings on child gun deaths including firearm deaths of children and teens by manner (e.g. homicide, suicide, accident, unknown), state, race/hispanic origin, year and age group. The report also provices various ways we can step up and take action to protect children and teens from gun violence. -
09/15/09
Written Statement on the Hearing on the Implementation of Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act
The Children's Defense Fund's written statement on the hearing on the implementation of Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act before the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support of the Committee on Ways and Means U.S. House of Representatives -
09/11/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Keeping Children Out of the Pipeline to Prison"
Hundreds of thousands of our nation’s children are being funneled down life paths that lead to arrest, conviction, incarceration and even death. The urgent challenge for each of us and for our nation is to prevent this waste of our children's lives and of our nation's capabilities and future. -
09/04/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Promising Models for Reforming Juvenile Justice Systems"
Nationally, one in three Black boys and one in six Latino boys born in 2001 are at risk of going to prison during their lifetimes. Although boys are more than five times as likely to be incarcerated as girls, the number of girls in the juvenile justice system is significant and growing. -
08/28/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Katrina’s Children— Still Struggling"
Dear President Obama: My name is Jade Windon, 7th grade student at McDonogh 42 Charter School in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mr. President, I write to you expressing how many of our lives continue to be affected today by the storm that happened almost four years ago. Hurricane Katrina devastated the lives of everyone here and in the Gulf Coast region. -
08/21/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "The Economic Costs of Uninsured Children"
In June, Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy released “The Economic Impact of Uninsured Children on America,” a new report whose bottom line is that extending health insurance coverage to all children in the United States would be relatively inexpensive compared to the cost of letting children remain uninsured and would yield economic benefits that are greater than the costs.
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