Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care.
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While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.
Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.
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.
Millions of Americans, adults and children, lack access to dental care.
If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars.
Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start.
If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
Social safety-net spending is an important form of public funding that helps offset disparities in family resources for children.
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