National

  • Immigration

    Worksite Raids Devastate Families and Communities

    U.S. immigration officials Wednesday conducted a series of worksite raids near Jackson, Miss., detaining 680 people and separating an unknown number of children from their parents.

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  • Child Health

    Racism’s Dangerous Impact on Child Health

    Last week our friends at the American Academy of Pediatrics released a new policy statement, “The Impact of Racism on Child and Adolescent Health,” which provides an evidence-based account of the ways in which racism is a driver of health inequities.

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  • Gun Violence

    Enough is enough.

    This weekend offered a shocking and shameful example of American exceptionalism at its worst: two mass shootings within a span of 24 hours.

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  • Child Health

    Block Grant Funding Threatens Medicaid

    On July 30th Medicaid turns 54! For more than fifty years, the guarantee of Medicaid has been a lifeline for tens of millions of children, people with disabilities and low-income seniors. Today, it is the largest health insurer for our nation’s children, providing comprehensive, affordable health coverage for more than 1 in 3 children, including nearly half of children with special health care needs.

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  • Child Poverty

    The House Passes the Raise the Wage Act

    For too many families trying to get by in America, work doesn’t pay. More than a third of the 12.8 million poor children in this country live in families with at least one full-time, year-round worker and, in total, one in nine full-time workers are paid wages that leave them in poverty.

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  • Child Health

    Why are some parents failing to vaccinate their children?

    Vaccines are safe. They are highly effective. They are supported by every major American medical society and government agency and are a routine part of pediatric care. But if vaccines are safe and effective, why aren’t all children vaccinated?

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  • Health

    Vaccines: A Guide for Parents

    When enough people in a population are vaccinated against an infectious disease, “community immunity” protects the entire population. Community immunity helps protect those who cannot get vaccinated because they are too young, have weakened immune systems, or are part of the small portion of the population on whom vaccines are ineffective.