Only an industry that thought it was a good idea to charge customers for checking bags (something people already don't want to do!), could possibly come up with this genius idea. Wait for it... assigning children in seats away from their parents. Honestly, it's so outrageous, it makes me laugh (but...

It is an understatement to say that families are facing tough times today. As a single and unemployed mother to two small children, I certainly am. Because of that, now is the wrong time to cut the little social safety net we have left in this country. For many of us, slashed Medicaid funding, for...

“Think of the debt we’re leaving the next generation,” deficit hawks will often remark. Yet sometimes the cuts they propose are our most important investments in the next generation. We need to make sure that when we balance the budget, we're not leaving behind a different kind of a debt: a human...

The Congressional Super Committee is in charge of proposing a plan to significantly cut our federal deficit, and I am one of the millions of Americans watching their recommendations closely. I am particularly concerned that they will suggest short-sided cuts to critical programs like Medicaid that...