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We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

Social safety-net spending is an important form of public funding that helps offset disparities in family resources for children.

Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost.

In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.

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.

People first, then money, then things.

If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

Money is a mechanism for control.