Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.

When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.

Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.