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Child poverty increasing, according to new report |
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According to a new report, a growing number of U.S. children live in extreme poverty, many of them in the southern states, and are surviving on less than seven or eight dollars per day. The report calls for the White House and the US Department of Education to establish a bi-partisan, blue-ribbon national commission to assess the educational needs of children in extreme poverty.
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Sick children will soon be guaranteed health coverage |
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Thanks to health care reform, children with pre-existing medical conditions will no longer be denied health insurance beginning as early as this September. The legislation that was passed by Congress some three months ago, for the most part, will not fully take effect for another four years. However, certain aspects of the bill will be enacted much sooner, including the provision that makes it against the law to deny coverage because of pre-existing conditions.
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Representatives call for $23 billion teacher jobs fund |
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Democratic Representatives Dave Obey and George Miller co-authored a letter to the editor in last week's Washington Post, arguing that jobs in education should be saved during this tough economic time. The letter was written in response to a Post editorial that suggested Congress ought to "Fail this jobs bill." Miller and Obey stated the following in the letter:
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U.S. cuts will perpetuate child abuse |
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As you know, Every Child Matters released a report in 2009 entitled "We Can Do Better: Child Abuse and Neglect Deaths in America" which predicted that abuse and neglect deaths of U.S. children would continue to increase unless the federal government made the issue a priority. Now, a recent article published by the Guardian online in Britain highlights the growing child abuse epidemic in America:
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Study shows even infrequent tobacco use enough to cause addiction in kids |
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A study published in Pediatrics, which followed more than 1,200 middle schoolers, reveals even one cigarette a month can lead to long term addiction. Contrary to the popular notion that occasional or experimental smoking among youth is relatively harmless, one-third of the study participants exhibited nicotine dependence four years later.
Read the full article here.
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