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Online Neighborhoods Bring People Together To Help Struggling Families

To better organize community support for struggling families, websites are cropping up that simulate the network aspect of a neighborhood and provide easy tools so that caring neighbors can help more effectively. Most of the websites are targeted at he… Continue reading

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Dr. Sean Daneshmand, CNN Hero, Helps Families With Sick Children

Dr. Sean Daneshmand, through his nonprofit Miracle Babies, provides financial assistance to families who have given birth to high-risk babies. After his own wife was threatened with a pregnancy that required intensive care, Daneshmand started the organization with the goal of providing aid to families whose thoughts were consumed with that of the health of their newborns.

Daneshmand told CNN that a parent shouldn’t have “to worry about everything around them” when a medical emergency is present. “I mean, life doesn’t stop. You still have to make your mortgage payments,”

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HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff Discusses Shameless Tea Party Heckling Of Hough Family On ‘The Ed Show’ (VIDEO)

Earlier this month, members of the Chicago Tea Party Patriots heckled a pair of town hall speakers who lost their daughter-in-law and unborn grandchild due to a medical emergency. Dan and Midge Hough wanted to explain how a lack of health care may have contributed to the two deaths.

The Houghs were on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” on Wednesday to discuss their experience. Afterward, Huffington Post Editor Roy Sekoff spoke with Ed Schultz about about the tone of public discourse in America and some of the shocking defenses being used to condone the behavior.

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