Tag: children

"It can't be that every fourth child between three and five years old is so heavily burdened with chemicals that long-term damage cannot safely be ruled out."

Children and teens in the United States experience much higher rates of gun deaths and injuries than in any other industrialized country.

Agencies consistently place a far higher value on corporate profits than they do on the children of the world.

I’m going to heed their leadership. I plan to join them, to learn and listen, to do my best to share my still unarticulatable fears and, with my children, to face this future together.

"This is not normal! Why would any member of Congress or person of conscience support increasing funds and enabling this agency?"

This spike in costs has broad implications, including leading fewer families to have children.

Facilitating such participation would not only encourage broader social responsibility among young people, it would enrich and strengthen democracy itself.

Unless progressive policies are demanded by American voters, most of our children and grandchildren will suffer from the continuing expansion of a Great-Depression-like wealth gap that already "dwarfs" the rest of the developed world.

"All children deserve to be safe and protected, to live with their parents and their families, and to have their voices heard."

Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Rambo, Red Dawn, and how a tale of American triumphalism was returned to the child’s world.