Taking Tater Tots Off the Tray
Recommendations from a panel of nutrition experts seek to make school lunches healthier, but enacting them is easier said than done.
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Cut Commercials, Not Carbs
The fries children see on TV may determine their weight as much as the ones they're eating.
40 Years of Muppetology 101
How to get to Sesame Street? Take Wonk Way and turn left on Research Road.
Preventing Cyberbullying Remains Terra Incognita
Although bullying and its new-media sibling cyberbullying aren't going away, we don't need to be helpless in responding to them, argue the authors of a new guidebook.
New Therapies Break Sickle Cell’s Painful Grip
A brace of therapies ranging from improved bone marrow transplantation to stem cell research may finally put sickle cell anemia on the run.
Just Cause for Great Alarm
In a Miller-McCune.com interview, Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund explains why tackling poverty, education and health care during this financial crisis makes economic sense.
Walking the Gantlet Keeps Us Plump
UPDATED: A policy brief finds increased obesity among the poor is likely tied to structural obstacles in better eating and exercising.
Let’s Look at a Bailout for Child Care, Too
Analysis: Providing care and enrichment to the children of the working poor is a good investment, not a luxury.
American Kids Left Behind in Numbers Game
Social stigmas against math force youths to hide or neglect skills.
Clean Start
Joanne Goldblum saw poor people reusing disposable diapers and had to do something. Her nonprofit, The Diaper Bank, now gives 150,000 diapers a month to people in need.