Just in time for Thanksgiving, a new government study revealed that 183,000 more American households with children suffered from low food security last year than the year before, meaning that finances likely forced parents to cut children's portions or entire meals altogether.

That striking and alarming development is, at...

With a poverty crisis affecting one in six children in America, we need new ways to raise awareness and engage more Americans in this tragic yet reversible situation. Perhaps the best resource for advocacy is kids themselves. So here's a project that educates kids about the challenges too many of...

Over the past few months, the Samoan tsunami, the California wildfires and the anniversaries of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina delivered sober reminders of our fragile sense of security and our extraordinary vulnerability to disasters.

But despite an unprecedented and relentless onslaught of natural and manmade catastrophes over the past...

The White House announced Monday that President Obama would be visiting New Orleans this month -- his first visit since taking the presidential oath.

During his two-day swing, the President will only see a small fraction of the challenges New Orleans confronts four years after Katrina, such as the...

Every parent remembers their first reaction when they heard the news the morning of September 11th: "Where are my children and are they safe?" As cell phones became useless across the East Coast and children at child care centers and schools were evacuated, many parents were left without a clue...

In his speech to America's schoolchildren, President Obama said: "Every single one of you has something that you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is."

This was an inspiring message of empowerment and...

We debated stimulus in the winter, global warming in the spring, and health care reform in the summer. The first seven months of the Obama Administration have been the most ambitious of any administration in recent history. But presidents don't just make history with controversial, high-profile issues. Sometimes it's under-the-radar...

The Wikipedia entry for the "2000s" points out that there's no widely accepted name for the decade that ends in just seven months. There's the "zeros," the "aughts" and even the "nils" and "nillies." However, there's one defining quality that we'll remember the most about the last ten years: the...

Last week, Save the Children Ambassador Jennifer Garner and I lobbied DC decision-makers, including more than a dozen members of Congress, to support an additional $2 billion in federal funding for private and public early-childhood-education programs.

Our message was simple: Since 85% of our brains develop during the first...

Imagine if the Department of Health and Human Services announced it wouldn't monitor or control the Swine Flu until millions of people were ill. Or if the Department of Homeland Security refused to track Al Qaeda until it launched multiple attacks inside the United States.

Needless to say, there'd...

The eyes of a recession-weary world are on the G-20 this week as an anxious global community awaits plans for a clearer and quicker path out of the recession. While we all want the leaders gathered in London to deliver recovery in the months and years ahead, they should also...

Earlier this week, I visited Owsley County Elementary School in Booneville, Kentucky with Cokie Roberts, Save the Children's board vice chair. Owsley County is the second poorest county in the nation, a particularly striking distinction in the midst of the worst economy in generations.

What's even more striking than the...

During the onslaught and aftermath of Gustav and Ike, sympathy, donations and support were in supply as Americans came together once again.

One of the best examples was Toys "R" Us, which provided more than 300,000 baby care products for families displaced by Ike and Gustav....