Last month, the Annie E. Casey Foundation released its 2025 edition of the KIDS COUNT Data Book, an annual resource that measures national and state data on economic well-being, education, health, and family and community factors. As they sum up their …

… to do better for kids and their families. Since … Congress determine what choices children, young people and families … second and third for overall child well-being and Mississippi, … Marian Wright Edelman is the founder and president emerita of the Children’s …

In 2021, President Joe Biden signed into law the bill that had been passed by unanimous consent in the Senate and 415-14 in the House to establish Juneteenth National Independence Day, June 19, as a federal holiday. Juneteenth marks the jubilant day in …

The day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who was running for president, appeared at a Cleveland event and said instead of talking about politics he had to speak about the “mindless menace of violence in America …

Once again, this is the joyous time of year when families, friends, and teachers are cheering on graduates of all ages who have worked so hard and made them all so proud.  I hope many of today’s high school and university graduates will wander off the …

Mothers. Grandmothers. Women. We have so much work to do. So many mothers and infant lives to save. So many child dreams to realize and hopes to nourish and protect. Our countries and a common world to change, and such long distances to travel — from …

“Teaching children may be the highest way to seek God. It is, however, also the most daunting way, in the sense of the greatest responsibility.” — Gabriela Mistral, Chilean Nobel Prize laureate in literature, school leader and teacher Every year, the first …

This month marked a Civil Rights Movement anniversary: the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in April 1960. People often forget that children and young people were major front-line soldiers in the Civil Rights Movement. Six- …

In 2020, when the start of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a holy season like no other, Pope Francis published an Easter Sunday letter directed to movements and organizations working for justice for people with low incomes and those experiencing poverty. He …

“A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we …