When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.
From Irwin Redlener
Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.
Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.
The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism.
If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.
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