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…
What About the Kids? campaign demands answers on children’s issues
Posted by Joanna Shoffner Scott on Sep 25, 2012 at 12:17 PM
Poverty continued to rise in New Jersey last year, as the state saw its average household income drop for the fifth year in a row. New Census data revealed that median income in 2011 dropped 3.4 over the year before.…
“Enough about the children”? We don’t think so
Posted by Jacquelyn Lendsey on Sep 14, 2012 at 1:11 PMWe agree with a recent column in USA Today that politicians have been using children as props this election season. But the column, titled “Politicians, enough about the children,” is totally wrong about what we should do about it.…
How the media and the 2012 candidates have ignored kids
Posted by rheine on Apr 9, 2012 at 12:26 PMLast week we released an updated version of our report on how the 2012 presidential debates have ignored children’s issues. That report finds that less than 2 percent of discussion focused on child well-being — just 17 out of more…
