Post-War Hopes, Cold War Dreams
The 1950s in America were a time of nostalgia and neurosis. Factories poured out goods, the dollar was powerful, and the United States - filled with the heady optimism of victory in World War II - believed that it could politically, culturally, and ...
The Raising of America: Episode 1 - The Raising of America
About the title: The U.S. is the wealthiest, most powerful country in the world. So why has our child well-being fallen to 26th? An alarming number of American children are following low developmental trajectories from the start. They enter adulthoo...
Who's counting : Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics
Marilyn Waring is the foremost spokesperson for global feminist economics, and her ideas offer new avenues of approach for political action. With persistence and wit she has succeeded in drawing attention to the fact that GDP has no negative side to...
The Raising of America: Episode 2 - Once Upon A Time
About the title: Imagine how things might be different if all America’s children had access to high-quality early care and education for the past four decades? They almost did.
Back in 1971, a bi-partisan Congress passed a bill providing high-qua...
The Raising of America: Episode 4 - Wounded Places
About the title: Combat vets and survivors of wars and natural disasters aren’t the only people susceptible to PTSD. Too many of our children, especially children of color living in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty, show the effects of unrele...
The Raising of America: Episode 5 - DNA Is Not Destiny
About the title: Fetal and early childhood experiences and environments – chemical, family, socio-economic – literally become part of us. But how? The genes we inherit don’t change. But new scientific discoveries reveal that disadvantage and a...