Tag Archives: child poverty

Organize a Children’s Sabbath Service; Children’s Sabbath Weekend—October 18-20, National

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Sandy Strauss

From the Children’s Defense Fund (http://www.childrensdefense.org): Want to make a difference for children in your community?  If you are a member of a faith community, you can begin organizing a Children’s Sabbath celebration as part of our National Observance of … Continue reading →

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Urge Senators to Hold Children Harmless in Budget Negotiations

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Sandy Strauss

From the Every Child Matters Education Fund (http://www.everychildmatters.org/): ECM’s latest effort to ensure children are held harmless in the ongoing budget negotiations has borne fruit with a letter to be signed by Senators and delivered to the House and Senate … Continue reading →

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Serious Issues for Public Education

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Sandy Strauss

From Jan Resseger, Minister for Public Education and Witness, United Church of Christ (http://www.ucc.org/justice/public-education): As we head into President Obama’s second term, public schools face several urgent challenges.  Our society tolerates a 22 percent child poverty rate; of all industrialized … Continue reading →

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Families Struggle: Child Poverty Remains Epidemically High

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Sandy Strauss

From the Children’s Defense Fund (http://www.childrensdefense.org): The U.S. Census Bureau’s new poverty data for the states show millions of families struggling mightily to keep their heads above water in the wake of the Great Recession. Fourteen states saw statistically significant … Continue reading →

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Sign Petition Telling Congress “Be Careful What You Cut”

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Sandy Strauss

From the Children’s Defense Fund (http://www.childrensdefense.org): The U.S. Census Bureau released new data that show poverty remains at record high levels. More than one in five children—16.1 million—were poor in 2011. Today, one in five children live in a food insecure … Continue reading →

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Act to Keep Children Out of Poverty

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Sandy Strauss

From the Children’s Defense Fund (http://www.childrensdefense.org): Earlier this month the U.S. House of Representatives made a clear decision to support billionaires over babies. They voted to extend the Bush-era tax giveaways to billionaires while voting to cut babies by decreasing the … Continue reading →

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Longitudinal Study Finds 25 Percent of Kindergarteners Living in Households Below Poverty Line

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Sandy Strauss

From Build ECE News (http://www.papromiseforchildren.com): The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released First-Time Kindergartners in 2010-11: First Findings From the Kindergarten Rounds of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010-11 (ECLS-K:2011), containing findings from a longitudinal study … Continue reading →

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Fire in the Ashes—New Jonathan Kozol Book on Poor Children

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Sandy Strauss

From Jan Resseger, Minister for Public Education and Witness, United Church of Christ (http://www.ucc.org/justice/public-education): Jonathan Kozol has written a new book, Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children In America (New York: Crown Publishers).  It will go on … Continue reading →

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Be Careful What You Cut—Protecting Children from Budget Cuts

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Sandy Strauss

From the Children’s Defense Fund (http://www.childrensdefense.org): Did you know we launched a new campaign to protect children from budget cuts? The Be Careful What You Cut campaign (http://www.childrensdefense.org/be-careful-what-you-cut/) is grounded in three provocative print advertisements that make the economic case … Continue reading →

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Tolerance of Poverty

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Sandy Strauss

From the Children’s Defense Fund (http://www.childrensdefense.org): By Marian Wright Edelman The latest edition of UNICEF’s report on child poverty showed the United States ranks second out of 35 developed countries on the scale of what economists call “relative child poverty” … Continue reading →

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