Can you tell me any logical reason why it should be any different whether it was on the open sea or on land?
The American people want to know how and why this happened.
The rate of children living in poverty this year will climb to nearly 22 percent, the highest rate in two decades.
the American tradition is that immigrants move up the ladder, as they have for many hundreds of years, and it's our job ...
If we ignore kids... many of these kids are going to end up in jail, and many of these kids are going to end up in gover...
In a democracy, it's not so easy to do that.
So, it becomes a class issue, and not just an abstract health issue.
I think, frankly, it is a national disgrace.
But, it's important to understand that arriving immigrants find themselves on the lower rungs of the economic ladder.
The economy will turn. Those children who fall into the rabbit hole of poverty right now will not recover.
I think it's an international disgrace, that we have the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world.
I think it costs more money to keep somebody in jail than send them to Harvard University.
As a nation--I agree with Mrs. Powell, who described the situation regarding our kids as abysmal.
It must be a priority to mitigate the impacts of the spill on both the delicate and vital gulf ecosystem, and on coastal...
I am particularly concerned by the close relationships that have developed between powerful oil interests and Government...
I am encouraged by President Obama's directive to restructure the MMS in order 'to build an organization that acts as th...
We keep talking about it and haven't done it.
We are wasting 25 to 30 percent of our human capital. There is no way we are going to compete if we don't solve this pro...
