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| Oct 21, 2026 | Chairman Cassidy, Heinrich Introduce Legislation to Support Children with Dyslexia, Improve Literacy | WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) introduced the Literacy Improvement for Transformation (LIFT) Act to impro... |
| Jun 12, 2026 | These Colorado essential workers can do their jobs because they have childcare: ‘It’s vital’ | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Austin Vance helps keep the lights on in Fort Collins. Lineworker Austin Vance poses for a portrait at Fort Collins’ Utilities Service Center on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The ... |
| Apr 9, 2026 | Gen Z is the loneliest generation. Here’s what can help | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
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We are more connected than ever before, with our high-speed internet, pinging smartphones and ever-updating apps and social media networks. (iPhone 17e, anyone?... |
| Sep 11, 2025 | New Mexico is the first state to promise free child care for all families | By MORGAN LEE, Associated Press
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s governor is promising universal free child care to families of all income levels. Related Articles
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| Apr 20, 2025 | The Protein Paradox: Navigating the Nutritional Minefield | In a world obsessed with protein, the message is loud and clear: more is better. Walk into any grocery store, and you’ll see protein bars, shakes, and snacks lining the shelves. Social media influencers, many with impressive credentials, pr... |
| Apr 19, 2025 | This is a ‘powerful predictor of long-term success,’ says expert—and parents who do 5 things give kids an edge | When we think of raising a reader, we often picture a child snuggled in bed, bathed in the soft glow of a nightlight, listening to a parent read a story aloud.
That scene is magical. But after more than 10 years of studying how kids become ... |
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| Jun 12, 2024 | The state of childhood well-being in Illinois | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
Illinois kids lost ground in reading and math during the pandemic, but the number living in high-poverty areas decreased, according to a new Annie E. Casey Foundation... |
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Arkansas ranked No. 45 in the country for child well-being in a report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation out yesterday — down from 43rd the past two years.
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| Apr 25, 2024 | The opioid epidemic and foster care system are colliding in Virginia | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Family members in Virginia are increasingly becoming caretakers of children removed from their parents' care due to drug use, according to an investigation from WHRO.
Why it matters: It's on... |
| Apr 17, 2024 | Taking Action: Become a Health Equity Leader | In a 1955 speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared that of all forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most “shocking and inhumane.” Yet racial and ethnic health inequities remain pervasive across all state health system... |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Children face hunger across Deep South after states refuse summer food aid | The day school gets out for summer sparkles in the American imagination as a vision of children spilling out of classrooms into joyful weeks of freedom and warmth.
But in reality, the summer months bring something else for millions of child... |
| Jan 26, 2024 | Congress must pass the child tax credit deal to support kids’ health | When I enter, “what is pediatrics?” into an image search engine, I get back dozens of stock photos with smiling physicians listening to beaming children’s hearts or looking in their ears. I love those images. They reflect the routine joy an... |
| Jan 18, 2024 | Entertainment | ‘Grandmothering While Black’ takes a deep dive into how parents’ parents are coping with raising the next generation | Darcel Rockett | Chicago Tribune (TNS)
LaShawnDa Pittman’s book begins with a table of women’s names — 74, to be exact — listing their first name, age, marital or dating status, and the number of children, grandchildren or great-grandchildr... |
| Jan 10, 2024 | Report highlights racial disparities among Arkansas children | Children of all racial and ethnic groups are worse off in Arkansas than the rest of the nation on average, with the exception of American Indians or Alaskan Natives.
Driving the news: The Annie E. Casey Foundation released a report Wednesda... |
| Nov 1, 2023 | Empty Desks: Getting Chronically Absent Students Back to Class Is No Easy Feat | MENLO PARK, Calif. — Forty minutes. That's how long it took Laura to walk from her home to her high school two blocks away one sunny April morning.
Getting to the classroom has been a struggle for students like Laura, 15, who just fini... |
| Sep 30, 2023 | The Push To Improve K-12 Test Scores Is Connected With Student Well-Being | News headlines that spotlight declines in reading and mathematics scores for American students sit alongside heartbreaking reports on student mental health, anxiety, and school-avoidant behaviors. Test scores and student well-being are deep... |
| Aug 15, 2023 | Cost of child care forces some California parents to leave jobs | Data: Annie E. Casey Foundation; Map: Tory Lysik/Axios Visuals
Child care has gotten so expensive in California that some parents have been forced to quit their jobs, turn down opportunities or stop working to stay home with their kids.
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| Jun 22, 2023 | New Legislation Arrives To Support Moms In The Workplace, 30 Years After FMLA | Close up of a diverse group of business people having a business meeting in the officegetty |
| Jun 18, 2023 | Parents are struggling at work or quitting altogether because of the childcare crisis. This map shows how bad it is for families in every state. | A person walks with a stroller in a park in front of the New York City skyline as it's covered with haze and smoke from Canada wildfires on June 7, 2023 in Weehawken, New Jersey. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images
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| Jun 1, 2023 | See the 19-slide presentation that got the former Louisiana health chief $15 million to care for families at home | Dr. Rebekah Gee, Nest Health cofounder and CEO. Nest Health This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
A former Louisiana secretary of health is building a startup to get families pr... |
| May 31, 2023 | Members of Gen Z were born between 1997 and 2012. Here are 7 events that have defined their lives so far. | Students wearing masks at school. Christian Ender/Getty Images
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From a young age, many members of Gen Z have endured life-altering events.
COVID-19 and school shootings, among others, have shaped the young generation.
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| May 23, 2023 | Hundreds of thousands of Black children who lost a parent could be missing out on Social Security payments | After Dr. Sarah Williams lost her husband Clarence to lung cancer in 2015, her grief was soon accompanied by financial worries about providing for their 9-year-old twins.
Affording basics like school supplies and field trips strained Willia... |
| Feb 7, 2023 | Reinvestment Fund Announces New Managing Director of Strategic Communications | ATLANTA (PRWEB) February 07, 2023
Reinvestment Fund announced that Tiffany Patterson has joined as its newly selected Managing Director of Strategic Communications. Reporting to President and CEO Don Hinkle-Brown, Patterson will lead integr... |
| Jan 27, 2023 | The rest of the US can learn a lot from how New Mexico is tackling the childcare crisis | Getty
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| Dec 14, 2022 | Youth Justice Reform Continues in New Jersey | View Report
TRENTON – New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and Juvenile Justice Commission (“JJC”) Acting Executive Director Dr. Jennifer LeBaron have announced the release of the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) ... |
| Oct 19, 2022 | Kids’ Mental Health is in Crisis. Schools Can Get Them Help Through a $1 Billion Fund. | The kids are not alright.
Medical experts agree that, after nearly three years of pandemic-induced strain, children are in the midst of a mental health crisis.
One signal of just how severe a crisis: The U.S. Department of Education is read... |
| Oct 12, 2022 | How we are faring mentally post-COVID (the answer: not so well) | Every age group, racial and ethnic group, every gender, was impacted negatively by the pandemic
Mental health issues are nothing new: as we've written about before, mental health was a problem long before COVID entered the scene, but w... |
| Oct 12, 2022 | FOLX Health raises $30M to provide virtual care to the LGBTQ+ community | The company plans to use the funding to add mental and behavioral health services
Despite the the LGBTQIA+ community being a younger population than non-LGBT+, with more than half being between the ages of 18 to 35, they are also more likel... |
| Sep 28, 2022 | The Biden Administration Announces $8 Billion In Commitments To Address Hunger, Nutrition, And Health Issues | Today, President Biden and key senior officials hosted the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. The goal behind the conference is straightforward: to address issues regarding food insecurity and diet-related chronic dise... |
| Sep 16, 2022 | Learning To Navigate Institutional Markets For Next Generation | Petite 'n Pretty aims for its lifestyle product line to more accurately reflect the younger ... [+] consumer.getty |
| Sep 13, 2022 | Many Eyes Are on the Teachers Who Leave. What About the Ones Who Stay? | I’d be lying if I told you I didn’t check my work email during the summer sometimes. Before you get on me, it’s not every day. This summer, in the midst of driving across the country on a road trip, one of my accidental slips happened at a ... |
| Aug 24, 2022 | The Growing Role Of Mentoring As A Learning Tool For Education | Education looks to mentoring as a tool for sustainable impact. getty |
| May 12, 2022 | Governor McMaster Signs Legislation to Strengthen Foster Care in SC | Governor McMaster Signs Legislation to Strengthen Foster Care in SC
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| Feb 25, 2022 | Millions of children worldwide have lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19: "The hidden pandemic" | Two years into the pandemic, an estimated 6.7 million children have lost at least one of their parents or caregivers because of COVID-19, according to updated research, marking a grim milestone in what officials have dubbed "the hidden... |
| Nov 26, 2021 | Mississippi banned most abortions to be the 'safest state' for the unborn. Meanwhile, one in three Mississippi kids lives in poverty. | Mississippi lawmakers said the ban on most abortions after 15 weeks makes Mississippi 'the safest state in the country' for the unborn. Mississippi's ban is before the US Supreme Court. The case could have major national impl... |
| May 28, 2020 | Colorado’s juvenile prisons have avoided COVID-19 outbreaks, but advocates worry about the future | The teen only gets to see his 8-month-old daughter over FaceTime these days. Charged with a violent offense, the 17-year-old has been in Greeley’s Platte Valley Youth Services Center since March as he awaits his next court date. But with th... |
| Apr 27, 2020 | 5 years later, reflections on the Baltimore Uprising in another crisis moment | On the day after the CVS burned, Elijah Cummings stood on the corner of Penn and North with a bullhorn.
It felt like one of the first moments of pause after a sleepless night. From the time the confrontation started between students and pol... |
| Jul 2, 2018 | Hawaii ranks in middle among states for child well-being | DENNIS ODA / [email protected]
“There is clear research that shows that states that do well are the ones that are making those public investments.”
Ivette Rodriguez Stern
Hawaii Kids Count
Hawaii landed in the middle of the pack, rank... |
| Apr 6, 2018 | Michael K. Williams Meets Kids Swept Up in America's Prison Pipeline | Before Michael K. Williams was celebrated for his gritty acting roles on shows like The Wire and The Night Of, he was a kid growing up in Brooklyn's Vanderveer projects. It was a community, like so many others across America, that rout... |
| Jun 21, 2016 | Isle teenagers clean up their act, report says | More of Hawaii’s children are growing up in poverty, but island teens are making healthier choices, with far fewer getting pregnant or abusing alcohol and drugs in recent years, according to a report issued today by the Annie E. Casey Found... |
| May 28, 2015 | Tiggly helps preschoolers build words by mashing letter toys with iPad games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
With 66 percent of fourth graders not proficient in reading, early literacy is a serious problem in the United States.
Research shows t... |
| May 28, 2015 | Tiggly helps preschoolers build words by mashing letter toys with iPad games | With 66 percent of fourth graders not proficient in reading, early literacy is a serious problem in the United States.
Research shows that kids benefit from learning games that include physical elements, and New York-based Tiggly is buildin... |
| Nov 12, 2014 | To reduce child poverty, aid parents, study says | A new Kids Count policy report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation calls for a two-generation approach to lifting children out of poverty, broadening the focus from keiki to their parents as well.
"If we are talking about better prepari... |
| Jul 22, 2014 | Isles rate medium for kids | CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / [email protected]
McKinnley Harris, 2, enthusiastically sang “Keiki” with fellow toddlers at the Star of the Sea May Day Pageant on Friday. The celebration opened with the kindergarten May Day court and was f... |
| Jul 21, 2014 | Hawaii ranks 25th in nation in latest KIDS COUNT report | Hawaii’s keiki are better off than their national counterparts on health and family measures but come up short in economic well-being given the high cost of living, according to a new report.
Overall, the Aloha State ranks in the middle of ... |
| Apr 1, 2014 | Asians, whites fare better than other kids, report says | NEW YORK » In every region of America, white and Asian children are far better positioned for success than black, Latino and American Indian children, according to a new report appealing for urgent action to bridge this racial gap.
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| Hawaii kids’ well-being at 24th in nation | It’s no surprise that the economic downturn has hit families hard. But a new report puts a spotlight on how family hardships are affecting the well-being of Hawaii’s children.
And the picture isn’t good.
The 2012 Kids Count report, released... |
| Gen Z is the loneliest generation — and it's their parents' fault | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Generation Z is impressive by any measure. They have more years of formal education and lower high-school dropout rates than any previous g... |
| Isles’ high housing costs taking a toll on children | PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY KIP AOKI / [email protected]
Hawaii ranks in the middle of the pack nationally in child well-being, with almost all keiki covered by health insurance but many families burdened by housing costs, according to the... |
| Isles stagnate in well-being for children, report finds | “Low-income kids tend to fall behind higher-income kids in the summer.”
Nicole Woo
Senior policy analyst, Hawaii Appleseed
Hawaii is stagnating in its care for children, especially in education and economic well-being, according to this yea... |
| Lives of island youths have improved, study finds | KIP AOKI / [email protected]
“With all the concern about possible reforms to the Affordable Care Act and the possible impact on Medicaid, we need to be really careful.”
Ivette Rodriguez Stern
Project director, Hawaii Kids Count
Hawai... |
| Hawaii’s children under economic stress, national report finds | CRAIG T. KOJIMA / APRIL 23
Children created a maze during pre-kindergarten class at Keolu Elementary School.
The well-being of Hawaii’s children was declining especially on the economic front even before the pandemic, according to the 2021 ... |
