PA’s Budget Surplus Can Be a Game-Changer for Kids For years we’ve been told that the money just isn’t there to meet the needs of schools, child care programs, or children’s health. Routinely, state lawmakers would metaphorically pull out their empty...
Spring Cleaning Right Down to the Paint Spring has sprung in Pennsylvania (fingers crossed) and it’s time for a good spring cleaning. Pennsylvania will soon be busy clearing thousands of homes of dangerous lead paint. After a year of making the case to...
Tomorrow’s Leaders Make their Case to Today’s Lawmakers “Our text books are older than the students using them.” The sad state of textbooks was raised by Upper Darby student Tanveer K. in a meeting with House Democratic Leader Joanna...
Three-Pronged Approach to Prevent Lead Poisoning Harriet Okatch, assistant professor of public health at Franklin and Marshall College and our partner in the Lead-Free Promise Project coalition, was published in The Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday. In the...
An ounce of prevention… “As a pediatrician and former medical director of the clinic caring for children with lead poisoning at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, I have seen the devastation of this preventable medical problem. Most of these...
