Every child — regardless of socioeconomic status — deserves to be a success story. Period.
In my latest book, The Future of Us: What the Dreams of Children Mean for Twenty-First Century America, I examine our nation’s safety nets and special programs that are designed to protect and nurture our most vulnerable kids, but that too often fail to do so. This represents a great peril to our nation’s future. With a new preface and afterword, I address how social and economic adversities and the coronavirus pandemic will impact children denying them the future they deserve, and the nation’s future depends on. It is also a book that covers my own unique personal and professional journey from the dangers of the racist South to running a children’s ICU, to working with Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, and many others helping people in sub-Saharan Africa, to working with Paul Simon to develop the nation’s largest mobile health care program for children living under very difficult urban and rural conditions.
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Irwin Redlener
MSNBC Analyst, Child Advocate, Author
Senior Research Scholar, Founding Director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia University
