My first impression arriving in Moore, Oklahoma this week was how complete and concentrated the destruction was. My second was how the families and children I saw in the community looked overwhelmed as they took it all in themselves.

But now the sense of immediate danger and shock is...

Over the last decade, children in the United States have been subject to some of the deadliest school shootings in the nation's history. From Red Lake, Minn., to Virginia Tech, to the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., our communities lost too many young, innocent lives to violence. In addition, in low-income...

Joint Statement from: Geoffrey Canada, Harlem Children's Zone; Bruce Lesley, First Focus; Ann O'Leary, The Center for the Next Generation; Michael Petit, Every Child Matters; Irwin Redlener, Children's Health Fund; Billy Shore, Share Our Strength; and Mark Shriver, Save the Children

Tuesday night President Obama took a strong stand for...

"When it comes to protecting the most vulnerable among us, we must act now," said President Barack Obama this afternoon, as he signed 23 executive orders and urged Congress to act quickly to curb gun violence. Mark was at the White House event on behalf of

This past weekend was tough for families across the country; for 26 families from Sandy Hook Elementary School, it was unimaginably devastating.

My wife, Jeanne, and I are having a hard time explaining the situation to our three young kids, including seven-year-old Emma. We try to stick to our routines...

A report card marked with too many C's and D's is not something to boast about. Unfortunately, those are just the kinds of grades America brought home yesterday, earning an overall C- in America's Report Card 2012: Children in the U.S., released by Save the Children and First Focus.

Most wars are declared by old men but fought by the young. But our war on poverty asks everyone to get into the fight. ~ Sargent Shriver, 1966

In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson appointed Sargent Shriver to serve as director of the War on Poverty. Both men understood this was...

Our nation's economic future is uncertain; we face increasingly aggressive global competition; lagging academic achievement is dragging down economic output; and almost two-thirds of Americans think our nation is on the wrong track.

We know the bad news all too well. The good news is...

For many of us, the arrival of spring means a new baseball season, taking short-sleeve shirts out of storage, a spring break trip, and studying for final exams. And for Randy, of course, it means the American Idol finals.

Not all Americans see as much change in their lives when...

Earlier this month, The Huffington Post partnered with Save the Children's U.S. Programs for an amazing series of blog posts about the nearly 1 in 4 kids living in poverty in the United States today.

Artists like Julianne Moore, Jennifer Garner,

The New York Times on Friday led with a story about a new Stanford University study that found the education gap between kids from wealthier families and ones struggling with poverty widened to a giant chasm over the last generation.

Specifically, since 1940, the...

This post is part of a series on childhood poverty in the United States in partnership with Save the Children and Julianne Moore.  Moore leads the organization's Valentine's Day campaign, through which cards are sold to support the fight against poverty in the U.S. To learn more or to purchase the...

At a campaign stop in Iowa Thursday, former speaker Newt Gingrich, making an argument against century-old child labor laws, said: "Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works ... [s]o they literally have no habit of...

This is my first Thanksgiving without my dad.

Not a day goes by that I don't miss him greatly, but not a day goes by that I don't thank God for blessing me with such a role model.

When I announced this spring that...

The Census Bureau is set to roll out a new way of measuring poverty in the United States, according to a front-page story in today's New York Times. Instead of counting how many families are living below the federal poverty line, the Bureau will now also take into...

Since its inception in 2001, No Child Left Behind, the centerpiece federal education law, has injected long-needed accountability into our education system and invested in kids and schools that weren't meeting standards. As a result, over the last decade, the bi-partisan law helped millions of kids who, otherwise,...

NBC News' Education Nation campaign launched this week with teachers, business pioneers, a former president and other leaders gathered in New York City to engage in a dialogue about education in America today. The event spans all of NBC's news programming and also convenes a three-day Summit on...

The number of Americans living in poverty jumped to a historic high this year according to new data released today by the Census Bureau.  Bearing the brunt of this crisis are 16 million kids in America, almost one out of every four and the highest number of kids since...

The eyes of the nation will peer solemnly across Lower Manhattan, rural Pennsylvania and Northern Virginia on Sunday. While millions of Americans will remember and reflect, many will also look beyond 9/11 to contemplate the decade that followed.

Indeed, 9/11 was not only a singular horrific event, but it...

In a matter of weeks, the Congressional Deficit Super Committee will convene to consider some of the most dramatic spending cuts in our nation's history.

The battle lines, political maneuvering and cast of characters will be predictable. Seniors groups, defense contractors, corporations and state and local governments will line up...