Tag: children

There seems to be no corporate recognition of the shameful act of taking decades of societal largesse and then doing everything possible to avoid paying for any of it.

The loss of childhood and the cruel removal of any sense of hope or of a secure future have been seeping into global discourse about children for many years now.

Nearly 2 million children a year lose their lives to conditions caused by environmental pollution and hazards.

These children, our own children and grandchildren, are facing terrors because of the self-serving corporate demand for profit over human need.

If we continue to ignore the hunger, poverty and desperate families and communities of our young, we guarantee there will be a huge, violent population plagued by crime, drug addiction and high incarceration rates. If we save the children, we save society.

Wealthy Americans are justifying the neglect of our nation's children by blaming the victims—children of the poor. In a perversely unequal nation, are children of all ages deemed disposable?

With a failing American educational system, the government’s abandonment of poor families and children living in blighted communities end up in prison. But how do they get from that child to that inmate?

Now the small-minded budget slashers won’t even pay for bus rides? It's time we invest fully in public education to get the future we want for our children.