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Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona on Ending Back-to-School Hunger
As a former elementary school teacher and school principal, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona knows about how hard i...
Back-To-School Hungry: Sharing Our Strength
Back-to-school time can be difficult for the over 13 million kids in the U.S. that are living with hunger. However...
Back-to-School Hungry: Food is the Most Important School Supply
There are over 13 million kids heading back to school this month in the U.S. that are living with hunger...
Letter From a Small Island in A Scary World
The world has been a fearsome place this summer. There’s no escaping the haunting horrors from Syria and Iraq, Israel...
Shaming Our Nation into Caring About Hunger
Last night NBC Nightly News used a newly released Feeding America report on hunger in America in 2014 as a...
On the 50th anniversary of LBJ’s “war on poverty” bill
This week makes the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson signing the legislation that enacted his “war on poverty” into...
From last night’s wreath laying ceremony at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on 70th anniversary of D-Day
Today is the 70th anniversary of D-Day, one of those rare world-changing events that actually live up to such...
A Pulitzer Prize for Giving Voice to the Voiceless
I sent a note of congratulations last week to Eli Saslow of the Washington Post after he won a Pulitzer...
“The key to the future is finding the positive stories and getting people to tell them to each other.”
Last week I was in New York to speak at a social entrepreneurship forum that took its name, Go Big...
Goose Rocks Beach at First Light on New Year’s Day
There’s nothing like watching dawn break over Goose Rocks Beach in Maine. The first sign of light on the horizo...
A New Year ritual of renewal
It is the season of both ritual and renewal. While our family is not especially observant when it comes to...
Letter From Zavala County
Greetings from Zavala County in southwest Texas, “the spinach capital of the world”, replete with an annual spinach festival...
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