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The Children’s Defense Fund September newsletter focus article is titled The 25 Percent it addresses issues of child poverty. Child poverty is an important issue in 2011 more than one in five children 16.1 million live in poverty (Children’s Defense Fund, 2012). Families are struggling on a daily basis to provide food for them to eat. The founder of the Children’s Defense Fund stated these shameful child poverty levels call for urgent and persistent action. Citizens must demand that every political leader state what they will do now to invest in and protect vulnerable children and to prepare them to be competent future workers. It is way past time to eliminate epidemic child poverty and the suffering, stress, homelessness, and mis-education it spawn (Edelman, 2012).

 The article Be Careful What You Cut addresses issues about this year of stark political, economic and moral choices. How the federal budget, is critically important to remember that children did not cause the deficit. Americans have more just and sensible choices like helping babies during their early childhood development years rather than helping billionaires who need not one additional material thing, then speak up and fight back. There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage. A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future. It’s a simple calculation. Protect now or pay later.

I believe if we unite and come together as a nation we can eliminate child poverty. I have enjoyed learning about issues that other countries and the United States face as it relates to early childhood education.

Reference:
www.childrensdefensefund.org