With the entire nation buzzing over President Obama’s historic health care victory, many Americans are trying to understand how this new law will affect their everyday lives. For some of our nation’s most vulnerable children with special health care needs, President Obama has announced that, beginning this September, health insurance plans will no longer be [...]
For the first time in American history, adults do not believe that our nation’s children will have the opportunities they had to live a happy, healthy, and prosperous life. And over the past five years, the response from our nation’s leaders has been to decrease the share of our national investment in children by 12%. When [...]
Twenty years ago today, leading nations of the world put aside conflicting interests and cultural differences to unite behind a common purpose — the acknowledgment of the fundamental rights of the world’s most important and most vulnerable population, our children. Indeed, the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child, or CRC, is the [...]
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