Mr. President, Can You Hear Us?
Posted by Roberta Heine on Jan 22, 2013 at 5:35 PM2013 Children’s/Youth Inaugural Address
Yesterday, President Obama gave his second inaugural address, setting the tone and the agenda for the coming term: the economy, education, immigration and safety. Since children and youth under the age of 25 make up one-third…
Kids can’t vote!
Posted by Roberta Heine on Nov 6, 2012 at 4:10 PMWhen you cast your vote today, remember to think of how kids will be affected. They can’t vote. They don’t have powerful lobbyists in D.C. They need you to keep their interests in mind.
Nearly one in four children…
Election less than a week away. Will you make children a priority?
Posted by Roberta Heine on Oct 31, 2012 at 12:17 PMOur Wisconsin member organization yesterday shared a plea from their local TV news station to make children a priority (they advise the station on children’s issues). With the election now less than a week away, each party has made…
Differences spotted in the brains of affluent and less affluent children
Posted by Roberta Heine on Oct 24, 2012 at 11:27 AMEven though this week’s presidential debate was supposed to be on foreign policy, we warned you to be on the look out for vague promises to cut funding for social programs. Sure enough, discussion veered a few times in the…
Promote breastfeeding: End formula samples
Posted by Roberta Heine on Oct 19, 2012 at 10:00 AMCross-posted at MomsRising.org
Get ‘em while they’re young. You’ll often hear us saying that the early years are when we can make the biggest impact in a child’s development. That’s why encouraging breastfeeding is so important.
The benefits of nursing…
Finally, a candidate talks child poverty!
Posted by Roberta Heine on Oct 17, 2012 at 3:43 PMWe’ve long argued that children’s issues deserve a bigger place in the campaign. After all, our analysis of the 2012 presidential primary debates showed that only 2 percent of discussion was about kids. Yet 22 percent now live in…
“The state of kids: Poor, and poorer”
Posted by Roberta Heine on Oct 16, 2012 at 10:30 AMThe uptick in poverty recently is not a minor problem, and not something that will get fixed easily. The slow economic recovery promises that job growth will remain sluggish and many more families will experience deprivation. Worst of all, the…
The candidates debate tonight! Will children’s issue be part of the discussion?
Posted by Roberta Heine on Oct 3, 2012 at 2:07 PMWill you catch the presidential debate tonight? President Obama and Mitt Romney will face off directly for the first time, and both candidates have reportedly been rehearsing for months. It should be quite a contest, but will kids get a…
Watch: Child advocates make their case in 2012
Posted by Roberta Heine on Sep 28, 2012 at 1:44 PMWith Election Day fast approaching, our advocates are fighting to make children’s issues part of the discussion. Families are still struggling in the wake of the recession, after all, and more than 1 in 5 kids lives in poverty. With…
Census: Child poverty remains high
Posted by Roberta Heine on Sep 13, 2012 at 12:54 PMMore than one in five children lives in poverty in America, according to new data released from the Census this week. In 2011 the rate of child poverty, at 21.9 percent, was similar to other years following the recession, and…
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