Sharing Web Resources

For the past few weeks I have been taking a closer look at the Children's Defense Fund website and it is always an encouraging experience as well as an informative one. In the past I shared with you the opportunity to go on that site and view State of  America's Children Handbook which is filled with data that will make you scratch your head regarding poverty, reading & math scores and many other noteworthy pieces of information. The children's Defense Fund also has the following information on its website and because of the content I felt as if you would find it interesting.

Priorities for elected officials to ensure the future of every child

We are committed to reclaiming our country, our core values and spiritual foundation for our children and families. Too many children live in poverty and suffer from preventable illness, neglect, abuse, inadequate education and violence. These problems are solvable if we each do our part. Right now, our nation has the ability to:

• End child poverty;
• Guarantee every child and pregnant woman comprehensive health and mental health coverage and services;
• Protect every child from abuse and neglect and connect them to caring permanent families;
• Provide high quality early childhood care and development programs for all children;
• Ensure every child can read at grade level by fourth grade and guarantee quality education through high school graduation; and
• Stop the criminalization of children at increasingly younger ages and invest in prevention and early intervention.

Because we have been really looking at the topic of economist and others figures I felt as if this would really shine a light on what our focus should really be on as well as the elected officials that we out in various offices. It is believed that we should all have the same goal in mind regardless of our political party!

Can't we all just get along... for the sake of our children's future!