Sesame Street Changed My Life. We Must Protect It So It Can Mold More Kids’ Lives.
Co-published with HuffPost. We need to support Sesame Street to ensure it is available to all children, or we will lose what we began to achieve a half-century ago.
I Grew Up Without a Fixed Address
Co-published with Curbed. Officially, entire chunks of my childhood don’t exist.
For Those In Foster Care, ‘The Time Of The Readiness’ Is Charged
Co-published with The Establishment. After being heavily governed your whole life—told when to eat, when to sleep, when to come home—you’re suddenly set free to make your own choices. There is no other stop after foster care if
The Childcare Gap is Widening
Co-published with TIME with additional support from Capital & Main. Middle class and rural parents are on the receiving end of an emerging type of system that could be called daycare inequality.
Homework Inequality
Co-published with The Atlantic with additional support from Capital & Main. When it comes to schoolwork, there is a chasm separating students with parents who have predictable work schedules from those whose parents don’t.
I Love My Children and I Owe Them So Much Money
Co-published with Jezebel. (Excerpt) The majority of child support debt is owed by parents making less than $10,000.
How Pregnancy Drug Laws Hurt Children
Co-published with The Verge. Harsh pregnancy drug laws keep many women from seeking prenatal care, and that puts mother and baby at greater risk.
The Urgent State of Childcare
Co-published with Feature Shoot. This apocalyptic photo series explores the bleak, desperate circumstances that many American children face.
The Rise of Extreme Daycare
Co-published with Pacific Standard. Photography by Alice Proujansky supported by EHRP. More Americans are working late-night and early-morning hours. Who's looking after their kids?
Identity Thieves Target Foster Youth
Co-published with NBC News. Child advocates say that foster youth are particularly vulnerable to identity theft because they bounce from one home to another, giving an expanding group of adults access to their private information.
Crushed by the Cost of Child Care
Co-published with The New York Times. Increasingly, even middle- and upper-class parents are finding that day care is nearly impossible to afford.
Silicon Valley’s Offline Wage Wars
Co-published with Next City. For 10 years a massive income gap has been widening across Silicon Valley. Last November, however, the residents of San Jose voted in favor of a small but significant change: Raising the city’s