Recently, I had the opportunity to visit the 52nd Street Elementary School in South L.A. which has 850 students and, last October, switched to breakfast-in-the-classroom (notwithstanding some initial resistance and concerns).
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In the last two years, our country has faced a lot of cliffhanger endings to our debt and deficit issues. We've seen debt ceilings and fiscal cliffs. Government shutdowns and forced furloughs. None have posed a threat to low-income children and families like what we are facing this week.
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This is the kind of news I get really excited to share. Our Cooking Matters program just served its 100,000th participant. That’s a huge milestone: 100,000 families who have learned how to stretch their food budgets and cook healthy, affordable meals at home!
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Billy Shore, Founder and CEO of Share Our Strength, imagines a speech from the presidential candidates addressing their plans to focus on what is best for the nation's children and re-set national priorities so that we invest in their nutrition, education, health, and development:
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Recently, I joined with five other anti-poverty, child advocates in sending a letter to President Obama and Governor Romney urging the candidates to share their plans for addressing child poverty in their Administration.
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The outpouring of warm remembrances for former Senator George McGovern underscore our admiration for those who have the courage to speak out on behalf of the most vulnerable and voiceless, even when it’s political unpopular or even politically costly to do so.
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If you are passionate about education, health care, ending obesity, and economic competitiveness and security…you may find that the issue of childhood hunger is more important to you than you realized.
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Today, the Census bureau released the new poverty numbers for 2011. The numbers show 46.2 million Americans today live in poverty, 16.1 million of whom are children.
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