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Walter Mondale

11/27/2018

Los Angeles Times Series, a Reminder of America’s Decision to Pathologize Child Poverty

Opinion

Daniel Heimpel

The Los Angeles Times and columnist Steve Lopez launched a critically important series on child poverty Sunday. Replete with both haunting and inspiring photos taken by the talented Francine Orr, readers are introduced to Telfair Elementary School in Pacoima, which has the inauspicious designation of “having more homeless students than any other in the district.”

6/8/2016

To Prevent Child Abuse: Replace the “Public Health Approach” with a Social Justice Approach

Opinion

Richard Wexler

Consider two approaches to working with troubled children and families. Approach #1 is embodied in a paragraph from a column in The Chronicle in which the author cites what she sees as barriers to working with children in foster care: “When foster parents said they could not, and our overworked paraprofessionals were unavailable, I had to take my clients to the doctor, dentist, therapist and for family visits.

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