Children – Page 33 – People's World

Hershey’s chocolate tainted with child exploitation, group charges

July 15, 2011 By Pepe Lozano

The Raise the Bar Hershey Campaign is urging chocolate lovers to choose another brand until Hershey's gets child abuse out of its chocolate.

Rally marks first birthday for Obama health care law

March 24, 2011 By Teresa Albano

Chicago-area residents celebrated the one year anniversary of the signing of the Affordable Care Act by President Obama, March 23, with stories of how the law helped them obtain affordable and quality health care.

California’s paid family-leave a success

January 27, 2011

California's landmark Paid Family Leave (PFL) program has produced substantial "economic, social, and health" gains for workers and their families.

Startling facts about infanticide and mothers

December 15, 2010 By Thomas Riggins

A disturbing study finds that killing of newborn babies in some parts of France is five times more frequent than official estimates had expected - but why?

Alarming U. S. public health statistics raise big questions

November 2, 2010 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

In 1960 combined male and female life expectancy in the U.S. ranked fifth in the world, in 2000 it had fallen to 24th place, and 10 years later, in 2010, to 49th.