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This guide presents information you can use to learn about the candidates' positions. Use it at candidate forums and in letters, emails, and telephone calls to the candidates.

Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities

We Can Do Better: Child Abuse and Neglect Deaths in America

Too Many Children Die in America as a Result of Abuse and Neglect. We Can Do Better.

In late October 2009, Every Child Matters released a report “We Can Do Better: Child Abuse and Neglect Deaths in America” during a public rally on the lawn of our nation’s capitol. According to the report, nearly five children die in America every day from abuse or neglect. In fact, federal data show that 10,440 children in the U.S. died from abuse and neglect between 2001 and 2007, but experts say the real number may be as many as 5,000 higher. A weak economy and resulting state budget cuts are putting even more children at risk, as evidenced by the nultitude of newspaper stories from across America that link an increase in child abuse to the worsening recession. To see a compendium of these stories, entitled “The Growing Crisis in Child Protection,” click here.

Child Well-Being in the States

(April 2008)

We all know the life chances of children are vastly improved when they are the top priority of supportive families and communities. While all states provide a basic network of social programs to assist vulnerable children and families, a huge gap exists on a wide variety of child well-being indicators. The state they live in should not adversely influence the life and death of children—but it does. Such inequalities affect all Americans, rich and poor alike, and weaken both our economy and our democracy.

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Presidents Helping Children

Highlighting improvements in national child well-being by past presidents and illustrating the challenges facing the next president and the 113th Congress.

This pamphlet is meant to remind us all of the central role past presidents have played in improving child well-being. Please take a minute to read this brief, illustrated history of important social legislation.

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Homeland Insecurity

As President Obama and the 112th Congress struggle with worldwide economic problems, it would be easy to postpone the critical new investments America needs to make in its children. And an already challenging situation is compounded by state budgets staggering under the recession and the cuts in social spending that follow.

But make no mistake, the development of human capital is central to U.S. global competitiveness, increased productivity, caring for an aging population, and fulfilling the moral obligation every generation has to leave the world a better place for the one that follows. This is not the time to take a step backwards.

During the 2011 lead-in to the 2012 early caucuses and primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire, Every Child Matters will be focusing its resources on these two most-watched states to raise awareness nationally of children’s issues. We will work to educate candidates and challenge them to heed our call for greater national protection, health, and education investments in children.

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