Impact of ACA rollback on kids will make you sick More than 100,000 children in Pennsylvania are currently uninsured. But if a rollback of the Affordable Care Act is enacted, as Congress is now considering, that number could swell. Such a move would be...
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Students will be our “workers or prisoners”–December 2, 2016
Students Will Be Our "Workers or Prisoners" We all get it. Good jobs = good income = better quality of life. We all want better skills so we can get better jobs to provide for our families. We want to be the workers, the business owners, and the bosses who...
Slipping through the cracks–November 18, 2016
Slipping through the cracks–November 18, 2016
Prevention: The Only Cure If 2,400 children had caught the measles last year, the City would have declared a Code blue, a health emergency, unleashing significant resources to contain the outbreak and prevent further cases. That would have been reasonable. Instead,...
The Elephant in the Room–November 11, 2016
The Elephant in the Room Anxiety. We’re all feeling it. For some it’s starting to ebb, for others it’s starting to gush. It’s hard to know how this caustic election will impact children. What we do know is they’ll look to the adults in their lives for...
The Elephant in the Room–November 11, 2016
Pre-K Roundtable “just the beginning”–November 4, 2016
Pre-k Roundtable "just the beginning" House Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi, Governor Tom Wolf, Mayor Jim Kenney and State Rep. Dwight Evans, stood shoulder-to-shoulder at a press conference following a roundtable discussion on pre-k. "What you're seeing up here? It's...
Children Still in Recession in Philadelphia Despite Recovery
Children Still in Recession in Philadelphia Despite Recovery Rising child poverty and lower student achievement casts shadow over modest gains Philadelphia (Oct 31, 2016) – While recent headlines tout a national recovery from the Great Recession, more children in...
Pres. Obama, will you protect our kids?–October 28, 2016
Will Pres. Obama take action to keep kids safe from toxic lead? Devestating. Untreatable. Entirely preventable. It goes without saying there is no way to reverse the terrible damage that lead poisoning causes so prevention and early detection is key. Yet, in Bucks...
Children Still in Recession in Chester County Despite Recovery
Children Still in Recession in Chester County Despite Recovery Rising child poverty and lower student achievement casts shadow over modest gains Philadelphia (Oct 26, 2016) – While recent headlines tout a national recovery from the Great Recession, more children in...