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Though Lorell will not have any official university duties after Nov. 1, she said she will continue research at her basic science...
Progressive taxation serves as the policy engine for social programs that are essential to providing the least fortunate in our society with a decent standard of living. Millions of children in the U.S. live below the poverty line, often without basic health insurance, and millions more suffer from dangerous obesity. It is not only a moral imperative to help children lead happy childhoods and develop into productive young adults, but it is also an economic imperative. Progressive taxation makes it possible for the government to meet these imperatives...
...18—based on the belief that adults are to blame for their own misery—we can all agree that the 12 million children living in poverty bear no responsibility for their plight. But these children, like their parents, lack the means to obtain the most basic of food, clothing and housing. The official poverty level for a family of four, only $18,392, amounts to far less than it costs in most parts of the country to maintain a basic standard of living. Even though this number has been adjusted for inflation since it was first...
Many of these poor children, and 8.5 million American children in all, are routinely denied annual checkups and basic treatment for their illnesses because they are uninsured. Another 13 million children are clinically overweight, according to the Centers for Disease Control, in part because many of them are also poor and uninsured and can afford only cheap, unhealthy food. Childhood obesity increases the likelihood of being overweight as an adult and significantly shortens life expectancy. It also creates health problems that deprive children of the active, carefree youths that they all deserve...
...when my friend asked for my help, I was more than a little concerned. But I recalled enough of the basic tackle tenets—bend with the knees, ‘club’ the person’s thighs, drive forward with the shoulder and legs—that things went well. Before long, she knocked the wind out of me. Felt like old times...