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This report appears with a link included in my previous post, down near the bottom.  It is TOO IMPORTANT to overlook.  The information included at this link is critical to ALL OF OUR WELL-BEING!

Effect of State Budget Cuts:  America’s Kids Pay the Price
This is a report NACCRRA released In January 2010 with Every Child Matters and Voices for America’s Children. To read a copy of the report, click on the title above.

“At least 42 states have cut public health, programs for children with disabilities, K-12 and early education, and higher education.”

Children During the Recession

“American children will be required to pay a substantial price in lost opportunities to address a problem they did nothing to create.”

—About one in four children under

18 is living in poverty; 21.3

percent of children under 6 live

in poverty

—Over half (53.3 percent) of

children growing up alone with

their mother are living in poverty

—More than one in five children

(22.5 percent) live in families

who are food insecure – meaning

they struggle against hunger and

report not having enough to eat

—Nearly 10 percent of children

lack health insurance—over

7 million children

—Only one out of every seven

eligible children receives child

care assistance and the care

that children have access to is of

dubious quality

Read what this report recommends to help improve conditions within our nation that are so negatively impacting our children.

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