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Press Room Rinku Sen: It's Legalized Neglect: Low-Income Children at Risk | Rinku Sen: It's Legalized Neglect: Low-Income Children at Risk |
 As our state legislatures struggle with impending budget deficits, American families are going to be presented with a bunch of terrible "choices." Do we want less healthcare or affordable housing? Fewer teachers or trash collectors? Childcare policy has gotten very little attention, but devoting resources to ensuring the safety and early education of kids in subsidize day care needs to go to the top of our agenda.As we see in this video and in our new report at the Applied Research Center, "Underprotected, Undersupported," state childcare policy too often constitutes "Legalized Neglect" of the low-income children, as always disproportionately of color, who deserve so much better. Read the rest of this article at the Huffington Post. |
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RINKU SEN
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