This week I learned that the children’s Defense Fund is everywhere. You can follow them on Facebook, twitter,youtube, etc. They are trying varies avenues to getting their cause known.
I receive the Children’s Defense Fund’s newsletters. This weeks newsletter outlined budget cuts and after reviewing this weeks tops I see that these budget cuts are taking place in the poor areas in our society. This is making quality care establishments hard for our poor communities to access. The article said:
1. Protecting children from all budget cuts. Children are the poorest age group in America and child hunger, homelessness and poverty have risen dramatically in recent years. We must stop the downward mobility of millions of poor children and the disappearance of America’s dream of a better life for the next generation that will result if Congressional extremists prevail.
2. Investing in children to strengthen our nation’s economic future. Leading economists agree that quality childhood development and education investments are sound economic investments. We need healthy, educated children who are our principal national security. That many leaders in the House are recklessly proposing to slash these investments is economically foolish.
3. Ensuring the richest and most powerful contribute their fair share. The gap between the rich and poor is the highest ever recorded. Yet shrill partisan voices in Congress seek to further widen that gap with rigid no new tax pledges. It’s time to end massive tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, close tax loopholes for huge corporations, and help our poorly educated and suffering children.
Children’s Defense Fund
I also explored the website and found a link to a New York Times article titled, “Bloomberg to Use Own Funds in Plan to Aid Minority Youth”. The article goes along with this weeks topic on Awareness, Accountability, and Responsiveness.
Resources:
Barbaro, M. & Santos, F. (2011). Bloomberg to Use Own Funds in Plan to Aid Minority Youth. New York Times. Retrieved from: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/nyregion/new-york-plan-will-aim-to-lift-minority-youth.html?_r=2&hp
The Children's Defense Fund. (2011). http://www.childrensdefense.org/
Matthews, H., & Ewen, D. (2010). Early education programs and children of immigrants: Learning each other's language. Retrieved from the Urban Institute website: http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412205-early-education.pdf
Thank you for sharing all of this information! The Children's Defense Fund is an amazing organization and its great that you found an article that pertained to this weeks topic.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the newsletter from the Children's Defense Fund. Budget cuts do seem to be taken place in the poor areas of society, and we definitely need to advocate for our children where the cuts will affect the most- education. Sometimes I believe it is true about the saying, "The rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer."
Budget cuts are hard to swallow in any area of business and for all societal groups; however, our poor families and children can not afford any more! They are such a fragile group that needs now more than ever for the government to support the programs that help feed and educate their children. I agree with Carol, as educators, we need to advocate for all children.
ReplyDeleteI agree that we need to stop these tax breaks for millionaires and corporations. We really need to be focusing on the lower income families. These children are the ones who are struggling and suffering. I don't understand why politicians when it comes to budget cuts, wants to take from education and the needy.
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