Children and Youth

Tools used to detect multiple sclerosis in at-risk adults may fail to predict the neurological disorder in children, a new study shows.

Congress is considering President Joe Biden’s historic plan for transforming our social safety net, including the grossly underfunded care economy that includes the elderly, the disabled and young children. All sectors of…

Lessons from a nonprofit’s attempts to change systems that impact children with developmental disabilities.

The need for increased child care access and quality have never been more important, and the child care industry has never been more fragile. The Biden administration’s signature domestic bill,…

Black children were 100x more likely than white children to experience firearm assault injuries in the first 21 months of the COVID pandemic.

As more companies take note of the ESG trend, I’ve been fielding client questions about how ESG is changing talent needs In my view, ESG is having an impact in…

Rather than offering wages attractive to adults, employers want lawmakers to push teens into some of the most dangerous jobs in the country.

In 1986, the federal government mandated that states provide therapy for newborns and toddlers with developmental delays and disabilities. But the program has been plagued with severe racial gaps in access and quality.

The purpose of threat assessment teams is to recognize emerging or imminent threats in schools and stop violence before it happens. But students in special education, in particular, are more likely than their peers to be assessed as a threat and can find themselves being denied protections they…

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Medicaid expansion led to a 1.5% increase in survival of children with cancer. That means 200 more children alive two years after diagnosis.

Evidence-based or evidence-informed policymaking and practice is increasingly championed by governments and decision-makers. To make this a reality, it is important to know how stakeholders, such as policymakers and practitioners,…

Today, more than half of the US Black population lives in the South. This concentration of Black Americans is the latest stage of a long-term trend that started in the 1970s, when…