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...Bough Breaks: The Costs of Neglecting Our Children, has discovered that their parents don't vote either. In the last national election, only 39% of adults with children at home cast a ballot, as compared with 61% of the elderly. During the 1950s, says Hewlett, who runs a nonprofit organization aimed at getting parents to the polls, 65% of parents voted...
...Coats thesis notwithstanding, many of the nonprofit groups that work with children have rallied to Edelman's call. Her Stand for Children has been endorsed by almost 3,000 organizations. Thousands of Girl Scouts are expected to attend, as well as thousands more teachers and members of the ywca and the ymca. The latter group, which serves 17 million children and families, and whose leadership is generally conservative, has gone out of its way to avoid the politics associated with the rally. "We hope not to be sidetracked by who is calling this event," says Y public-policy senior associate...
...center will be a collaborative effort between GSE and World Education, a Boston-based nonprofit economic and social development organization that helps to administer Commonwealth adult literacy programs...
...pressure to get big--and to use that leverage against other competitors, doctors and hospitals--is spreading like a virus through the entire industry. "These giant health-care mergers are happily galloping toward an oligopoly," says Sara Nichols, Washington director of the nonprofit Physicians for a National Health Care Program. Wall Street analysts foresee a day in the not-too-distant future when the whole country's health-care needs will be largely served by a handful of providers...
...turn off the TV and read to your kids." He would abolish the Department of Education (a move he never mentioned when he was running the place) and return Medicaid, the health program for the poor and disabled, to the states. He wants welfare to be administered entirely by nonprofit community groups, with the help of a new $500 tax credit for charitable contributions...