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Children
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Regulations Are Killed, and Kids Die
Under pressure, the Obama administration withdrew rules barring young laborers from dangerous work - a decision with grave consequences for several families.
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One Million K-12 Students Are Homeless
The Department of Education released its latest report on homeless students last month and the numbers are startling.
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Unintended Audience: Raffi Urges Protecting Kids From Facebook, Social Media
In book excerpt, the sage of children's music advises that social media are changing family life, youth peer relations and how people experience life, yet we have no clear …
Aren’t All Children Equally Deserving?
Pulling back from created other worlds, we are faced continually with moral dilemmasu2014often ones also involving children.
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Sequestration Slashes Head Start Funding
Last year about 1 million of the nation's poorest children got a leg up on school through Head Start, the federal program that helps prepare children up to age …
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Congress Thinks Plane Passengers Are More Important Than Kids
One can only wish that Congress would go to bat for kids with disabilities in the same way it has for airplanes.
Depleted Uranium Contamination is Still Spreading in Iraq
Mike Ludwig: Depleted Uranium is an ongoing health risk for civilians in Iraq.
Sequestration: What Do the Automatic Spending Cuts Mean for the Poor, Unemployed and Children?
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The Price of Revolutionary Illusions
Robert Parry: The cost of a number of American's violent illusions is the brutal murder of children.
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Reflecting on My Visits to Families in Exhausted Iraq
‘We are helpless and hopeless, but we are adapting,’ a doctor told a volunteer traveling in Baghdad this month.