The Children’s Defense Fund – Early Math Counts https://earlymathcounts.org Laying the foundation for a lifetime of achievement Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:51:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 183791774 How Children in Your State Fare https://earlymathcounts.org/how-children-in-your-state-fare/ https://earlymathcounts.org/how-children-in-your-state-fare/#respond Wed, 08 May 2013 17:01:01 +0000 http://www.mathathome.org/blog1/?p=1660 Have you seen this map from the Children’s Defense Fund? You can click on each state and a pop-up appears with statistics about children; including low birth percentages, mortality rates and the amount of money that is expended per child for education.  These are presented as comparisons so you can see how the children in your state fare relatively to the rest of the country.  Check it out.

]]> https://earlymathcounts.org/how-children-in-your-state-fare/feed/ 0 1660 Call Today https://earlymathcounts.org/call-today/ https://earlymathcounts.org/call-today/#respond Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:00:20 +0000 http://www.mathathome.org/blog1/?p=1002 I received this note this morning from the Children’s Defense Fund…
Please read and forward.
We urgently need you to make a call for children today. Decisions made during the lame duck session of Congress will have an effect on children and our nation for decades to come. With 1 in 5 children living in poverty, and critical investments for children being threatened, we need to make an emergency call for childrenTODAY.
Join in a national call-in day and tell your members of Congress, “Be Careful What You Cut”!
Step 1: Dial the Capitol Switchboard at (877) 233-9025 and ask to speak to your senators. Then do the same for your representative in the House. Find out who represents you by clicking here.
Step 2: Deliver the following message to the staffer who answers the phone:
Hello, my name is [your name] and I am a constituent living in [your home town]. I want to tell my senator/representative to Be Careful What You Cut. We need to invest in children today to prepare them to be the drivers of America’s economy tomorrow.
In the ongoing budget discussions, it’s important our leaders protect children and the poor from all budget cuts. Cutting children from the budget now costs all of us later. It’s past time for the most advantaged Americans and corporations to begin paying their fair share. I’m counting on the senator/representative to be a voice for children in Congress. Thank you.
You stood in line for hours to vote. Can’t you spend 2 minutes to be a voice for America’s children? Dial (877) 233-9025 and tell Congress, “Be Careful What You Cut“!
Thank you for raising your voice for children at this critical hour.
– Children’s Defense Fund
PS. Forward this email to a friend and help spread the word 
]]> https://earlymathcounts.org/call-today/feed/ 0 1002 This Just In- The Children’s Defense Fund https://earlymathcounts.org/this-just-in-the-childrens-defense-fund/ https://earlymathcounts.org/this-just-in-the-childrens-defense-fund/#respond Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:00:08 +0000 http://www.mathathome.org/blog1/?p=701 The most recent statistics about the state of children and poverty in America was released on Friday.  Since I didn’t want to ruin your weekend with the grim statistics, I thought I would ruin your Monday instead.

Click here to see the report.

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