Sonia Vasquez raised her daughter, Tina, just outside New York City. And when money was tight, Sonia would take on multiple jobs to pay the bills. "I was a day care provider. I work at the gym in the deli. I take care of the elderly," Sonia,...
Principal Rachel Skerritt was in the middle of one of the busiest parts of the year, planning for students’ return to Eastern Senior High School in Washington, D.C. this fall. With her hands full juggling agendas, making sure teachers...
Brownsville, Texas, sits high in the rankings where cities want to come in low. It's the poorest city in America, with 36 percent of its residents living in poverty. (By contrast, the poverty level in the nation's richest city, San Jose,...
My therapist literally told me I am at the development level of a 15-year-old. Obviously, this creates problems in my life, because I have done plenty of adult things. However, in may ways my emotions are stuck at age 15. I began to...
What a great summer we had and an eventful year here at United Way. At the end of 2013, United Way, the Kitsap Community Foundation and the Suquamish Tribe became partners with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in a program called Building...
If Congress passed a law requiring everyone in the United States to get a license to be considered for a job or rent an apartment, the nation would rise up in protest. The irony is that such a system already exists and its validity is rarely...
A couple of years ago, I got a call from the husband of Peg Bachelder, my daughter Hunter’s piano teacher. “Peg’s in the hospital,” Martin said. She’d been treated in 2010 for a rare pelvic cancer requiring...
Do you remember the summer when you first fell in love? The songs that were playing on the radio, butterflies in the stomach, the excitement of a stolen kiss? The tendency of our brains to especially hold onto memories from the teenage years is...
Research on how infants develop language skills is providing crucial insights on how language-rich environments benefit babies. And helping babies develop language skill is a crucial early step in helping them grow into proficient third-grade...
Robin Williams once said, "The world is open for play." But how often, in the midst of the daily grind, does it really feel that way? When we measure our lives in to-do lists and devote every moment to being productive, play, of course, falls...
On his fourth day of impersonating a homeless man, the Rev. Rick Cole was starting to look the part. Beneath a black baseball cap, his face was pale and unshaven. His eyes were bloodshot and weary, framed by deep creases....
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Vietnam veteran Ted Fish had not heard of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder until just four years ago, when he realised he'd actually been suffering it for the past 30 years. In this program we hear Ted's moving story. Also, some of the latest...
Anyone who has spent time with a child knows the all too familiar refrain: "That's not fair!" But it's not just humans who recognize when they're not getting an equitable share of pie (or toys, or time with Mom and Dad, as the case may be). Some...