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News Releases

• NEW MEASURES REVEAL VERY DIFFERENT POVERTY PICTURE
  News Release, April 2013
• Remembering Barbara B. Blum
  1930 - 2012
  Statement, October 2012
• Renée Wilson-Simmons, an Expert on Child and Adolescent Development, Selected to Head Columbia University’s National Center for Children in Poverty
  Center Explores the Connection between Poverty and the Health of Children
  News Release, October 2012
• Tracking Children With Mental Health Challenges
  News Release, September 2012
• CENSUS NUMBERS ON POVERTY DID NOT RISE
  15 percent of all Americans are poor; 21.9 percent of children
  News Release, September 2012
• HOW STATES ARE PROTECTING THE “SAFETY NET” IN HARD TIMES
  Through a Variety of Measures, States Coast-to-Coast are Showing It Can Be Done
  News Release, April 2012
• RESEARCHERS: MOMS NEED MORE THAN 6 WEEKS MATERNITY LEAVE
  Urging National Paid Family Leave Policies
  News Release, April 2012
• MORE WHITE CHILDREN IN LOW-INCOME FAMILIES THAN ANY OTHER RACIAL GROUP
  News Release, February 2012

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NCCP in the News

Highlights of recent media coverage featuring NCCP.

• Invest in Colorado’s youngest children
  April 2013
  Denver Post (Op Ed)
  Andrew Brodsky
• Here's how 3 states boosted students' reading scores
  April 2013
  Town Talk (Alexandria, La.)
  Mary Stegmeir
• Iowa's Kids: Roadblock in reading
  April 2013
  Shreveport Times
  Mary Stegmeir
• Six suggestions to improve reading
  April 2013
  Des Moines Register
  Mary Stegmeir
• Affleck’s announcement shines spotlight on greatest issue facing Country
  April 2013
  Examiner (Ind.)
  
• La. ranks poorly for child poverty rates
  April 2013
  Houma Courier
  Nikki Buskey
• La. ranks poorly for child poverty rates
  April 2013
  Daily Comet (La.)
  Nikki Buskey
• Why I have mixed feelings about Autism Awareness Day
  April 2013
  Charleston City Paper
  Mat Catastrophe
• 'Communities of Concern' data revealed on April 10 at talk in Union
  April 2013
  Independent Press
  
• Food bank eyes bill mandating drug tests for welfare recipients
  April 2013
  The Monitor
  Jacqueline Armendariz
• As access to mental care grows, low-income kids must be reached
  March 2013
  Boston Globe
  Dr. Davida M. Schiff
• Church members fight childhood hunger
  March 2013
  Cincinnati Enquirer
  Karen Vance
• Districts find youngest students among most absent
  March 2013
  KTAR The Voice of Arizona
  AP
• Districts find youngest students among most absent
  March 2013
  AP / for Yahoo News
  
• School districts finding youngest students among most absent
  March 2013
  Fox News
  AP
• With focus on expanding early ed, districts say getting little ones to show up takes some work
  March 2013
  Star Tribune
  Carolyn Thompson, AP
• Districts find youngest students among most absent; parents aren't seeing educational value
  March 2013
  Deseret News (Utah)
  Carolyn Thompson, AP
• School districts find youngest students among most absent
  March 2013
  Utica Observer Dispath
  AP
• Districts find prekindergarten students among the most absent
  March 2013
  Niagara Gazette
  AP
• Districts Find Youngest Students Among Most Absent
  March 2013
  ABC News
  Carolyn Thompson, AP
• Districts Find Youngest Students Among Most Absent
  March 2013
  NPR
  
• The Hidden Crisis in America’s Classrooms
  March 2013
  Yahoo News
  TakePart.com
• Editor’s note: ‘Children and Families Summit’ focuses on helping poor kids
  March 2013
  Washington Post
  Mary Jordan
• The Hidden Crisis in America’s Classrooms
  March 2013
  Take Part
  Steve Holt
• Indiana FSSA and the shredded Hoosier safety net
  March 2013
  Examiner (Ind.)
  
• Absences linked to dropout increase
  March 2013
  ABQ Journal (N.M.)
  Lance Chilton
• US Child Poverty Rates Are High; Blame Large Population, Government Mistrust, And Fear Of More Entitlements; The United Kingdom May Have Answers
  March 2013
  International Business Times
  Ashley Portero
• Latest Brain Research Supports Obama Early Childhood Plan
  March 2013
  Youth Today
  Kaukab Jhumra Smith
• Strengthening 21st Century Families: The Case for Paid Family Leave
  February 2013
  Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity
  NCCP
• Child poverty on rise in county
  February 2013
  Gaylord Herald Times (Mich.)
  Lorene Parshall
• Child poverty on rise in county
  February 2013
  Gaylord Herald Times (Mich.)
  Lorene Parshall
• Real ways to reduce poverty
  February 2013
  News and Sentinel (W.Va.)
  Mike Meyer
• Time to Take Action in Schools and Communities
  February 2013
  Huffington Post
  Michelle Nealon-Woods
• Study: Almost Half of S. Fla. Children Live in Low-income Homes
  February 2013
  Hispanic Business
  Donna Gehrke-White
• Helping Poor Children in W.Va.
  February 2013
  The Intelligencer, Wheeling News-Register (Ohio Valley)
  
• Should family benefits be tied to school performance?
  January 2013
  CURRENT TV
  Jo Piazza
• Will College and Culture and Civilization Go to Hell in a Handbasket?
  January 2013
  Dissident Voice Newsletter
  Paul Haeder
• America’s Insistent Violence: a Call to Action from Merge Education
  January 2013
  PR.Com
  Release
• Here Comes 2013: The Big Themes in Learning
  January 2013
  KQED Radio (NPR network)
  
• St. Louis RV Collects and Donates Children's Toys with O'Fallon Holiday Season "Toy Town" Drive
  December 2012
  SBWire
  
• Renée Wilson-Simmons Is Changing Minds on Children’s Health and Poverty
  December 2012
  Momentum (Mailman School)
  
• Mental Health Services for Youth in the United States
  December 2012
  Chicago Now
  Barb Moreno
• One-third of district students living in poverty
  December 2012
  Press-Citizen (Iowa City)
  Adam B. Sullivan
• Executive Moves (New Jersey)
  December 2012
  Star Ledger, NJ
  
• Streetwise: Charity is part of investing
  December 2012
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  Lauren Rudd
• Former Courier reporter to head poverty center
  December 2012
  New Pittsburgh Courier
  From our News Release
• A doll, tiny tots and a way to see an investment's benefits
  December 2012
  Pittsburg Herald-Tribune
  Lauren Rudd
• Moms to Congress: Don’t throw families over the “fiscal cliff”!
  December 2012
  Salon
  Lynn Parramore
• Study: 44% of US children live in low-income households
  December 2012
  Press TV
  
• Letters to the editor on size of Legislature, fiscal cliff, living wage Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2012/12/03/2586339/letters-to-the-editor-on-size.html#storylink=cpy
  December 2012
  Wichita Eagle
  
• Low-Wage Jobs Cause More Problems Than They Solve
  December 2012
  Yahoo Finance: The Exchange
  Jennifer Wheary
• Primary Care Pediatrics and Public Health
  December 2012
  Medscape Today
  
• Report details Catch-22 in Indiana welfare law
  November 2012
  Courrier Press (Evansville, Ind.)
  
• Detroit council rejects condition for cash infusion
  November 2012
  Press TV
  
• Glenn’s Strategies for Well-Being: Children, Poverty, and Race Read more at http://www.eurweb.com/2012/11/glenns-strategies-for-well-being-children-poverty-and-race/#2uyvyidwxEm5DmVy.99
  November 2012
  Lee Bailey's Eurweb.com
  Glenn Ellis
• Advocates for the poor examine Indiana’s benefits cliff
  November 2012
  Herald Times (Indiana)
  Tim Grimes
• This Week in Poverty: The Cliff and The Janitors Who Are Already On It
  November 2012
  The Nation
  Greg Kaufmann
• This Week in Poverty: Janitors in the Queen City
  November 2012
  The Nation
  Greg Kaufmann
• Truancy in the Chicago Public Schools: How Bad Are We?
  November 2012
  Chicago Magazine
  Whet Moser
• What Does Poverty Mean to Children?
  November 2012
  Frontline, PBS
  Sandy St. Louis
• FRONTLINE Panel on Child Poverty
  November 2012
  PBS
  
• Transitions: People in Academe
  November 2012
  Chronicle of Higher Education
  From our release
• Transitions: People in Academe
  November 2012
  Chronicle of Higher Education
  
• Letter: Mental Health Services at Home
  November 2012
  The Connection Newspapers
  Allsion Beck
• Letter: Mental Health Services at Home
  November 2012
  The Connection Newspapers
  Allison Beck
• A group worthy of your help
  October 2012
  Cincinnati Enquirer
  Edmund Adams
• Incentivizing poor and low-income persons to work and save more
  October 2012
  Standard-Eaminer
  Vijay K. Mathur
• Mental health disparities observed among Latino children in U.S.
  October 2012
  VOXXI
  Hope Gillette
• District assists homeless students
  October 2012
  Community Impact Newsletter, Houson
  John Rigg
• Families Living in Poverty in Southeast Michigan
  October 2012
  MetroParent (Michigan)
  Jacquie Goetz Bluethmann
• Munson: Increasingly, Iowa's children are poor
  October 2012
  DeMoines Register
  Kyle Munson
• Census: Most Schenectady kids live in poverty
  October 2012
  Press TV
  
• Census: Most Schenectady kids live in poverty
  October 2012
  Albany Times Union
  Lauren Stanforth
• Blue States are from Scandinavia, Red States are from Guatemala
  October 2012
  The New Republic
  Jonathan Cohn
• CollegeSpring helps boost low-income SAT scores
  September 2012
  The Western Edition San Francisco
  
• Insurance coverage improving among Ohio kids
  September 2012
  Zanesville Times Record Ohio
  Benjamin Lanka
• Kindergarten absences: Some Bay Area school districts are uncovering a hidden problem
  September 2012
  Contra Costa Times (Calif.)
  Katy Murphy
• Kindergarten absences: Some Bay Area school districts are uncovering a hidden problem
  September 2012
  Oakland Tribune
  Katy Murphy
• Health insurance is looking good for kids in Ohio
  September 2012
  Life Insurance News
  Colleen Jeremy
• More than race in disparate District 186 expulsion rates
  September 2012
  State Journal Register, Ill.
  Molly Beck
• Health insurance coverage increasing among Ohio kids
  September 2012
  Lancaster Eagle Gazette (Ohio)
  Benjamin Lanka
• Health insurance coverage improving among Ohio children
  September 2012
  Marion Star (Ohio)
  Benjamin Lanka
• Data: Valley sees slight rise in poverty
  September 2012
  Tribune-Star, Terre Haute
  Howard Greninger
• Think Again: Ignoring Poverty and Hunger
  September 2012
  Center for American Progress
  
• Data: Health coverage up for Ohio kids
  September 2012
  Newark Advocate
  
• Think Again: Ignoring Poverty and Hunger
  September 2012
  Huffington Post
  Eric Alterman
• Campaign Connection → Examining US Poverty in an Election Year
  September 2012
  The Voice of Russia Radio
  Carmen Russell-Sluchansky
• Our View: Kids pay the price
  September 2012
  The Sierra Vista Herald (Ariz.)
  Editorial Staff
• Behind Romney's Welfare Attacks, America's Top Poverty Denier
  September 2012
  Mother Jones
  Andy Kroll
• Voting "Yes" September 18 helps fulfill obligations to fellow citizens
  September 2012
  AI.com (Alabama Media Group)
  Editorial Staff
• Thank you! And Please Sir, might I have some more?
  September 2012
  Fort Lee Patch (NJ)
  Allison Moore
• Census Numbers On Poverty
  September 2012
  Health News Digest
  From our release
• Child Poverty Holds Steady For The First Time In Years, Census Bureau Finds
  September 2012
  Huffington Post
  Saki Knafo
• Are we better off today? Yes and no, says Census Bureau.
  September 2012
  Seattle Times
  Lynne Varner
• Health insurance: More kids are covered
  September 2012
  Mansfield News Journal
  Benjamin Lanka
• Media Not Concerned About the Very Poor
  September 2012
  FAIR Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
  Mariana Garces and Steve Rendall
• Media Not Concerned About the Very Poor
  September 2012
  Press TV
  mariana Garces and Steve Rendall
• Report: Child poverty spikes in D.C. region
  September 2012
  WTOP 103.5 FM (DC region)
  Alicia Lozano
• Defending the Social Safety Net
  September 2012
  Huffington Post
  Curtis Skinner
• Half of America in poverty? The facts say It's true
  September 2012
  Press TV
  Paul Buchheit
• Thinking about tomorrow
  September 2012
  The Almanac
  Dave Boyce
• Melissa Harris-Perry: ‘What Is Riskier Than Living Poor in America?’
  September 2012
  FavStocks website
  Taylor Marsh
• Hurricanes, Poverty, and Neglected Infections
  August 2012
  Scientific American
  Judy Stone
• “Inspiring Minds” Providence Kids Head to Kindergarten
  August 2012
  GoLocalProv (Providence, RI)
  
• Getting a jump on the school year
  August 2012
  The Columbian
  Jaques Von Lunen
• Charity Spotlight: Project Create D.C.
  August 2012
  Washington Life Magazine
  Halle Kaplan-Allen
• Child Care cost more than rent payments
  August 2012
  CW39 KIAH TV Houston
  
• World Vision Warns of a Crisis in the Classroom as Millions of Families Struggle to Afford School Supplies
  August 2012
  Sacramento Bee
  PR Newswier
• What the gubernatorial candidates are not talking about
  August 2012
  Qnotes
  Rob Thompson
• Suffer the little children
  August 2012
  Mukilteo Beacon (Wash.)
  Pastor Mark A. Samuelson
• Improving Professional Development for Early-Childhood Workforce
  August 2012
  Education Week
  Lesli A. Maxwell
• Re: Spoiled Rotten
  July 2012
  The New Yorker
  
• Has the United States lost the war on poverty?
  July 2012
  Examiner
  Gillian Burdett
• Has the United States lost the war on poverty?
  July 2012
  The Examiner
  Gillian Burdett
• Channeling Dorothea Lange
  July 2012
  Tulsa World
  Julie Delcour, Editorial Staff
• America in Poverty
  July 2012
  Examiner
  Maggie Dellarocco-Griffin (Editorial)
• 100 million poor people in America and 39 other facts about poverty that will blow your mind
  July 2012
  Press TV
  Editorial Staff
• Without high-quality preschool, Mississippi’s kids risk being left behind
  July 2012
  The Hechinger Report
  Liz Willen
• http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2120539,00.html
  July 2012
  TIME Magazine
  Liz Willen
• The Ranks of America's Poor
  July 2012
  Huffington Post
  Joanne Goldblum
• Children’s Defense Fund to Host Conference in Cincinnati
  July 2012
  City Beat (Cincinnati)
  German Lopez
• What A Diaper Means for A Child's Future
  July 2012
  Huffington Post
  Joanne Goldblum
• What A Diaper Means For A Child's Future
  July 2012
  Huffington Post
  Joanne Goldblum
• Groups collecting school supplies now
  July 2012
  Lansing State Journal
  Mark Mayes
• Family affairs with Susan Hetherington
  July 2012
  ABC Brisbane
  SusanHetherington
• Addressing Absenteeism in the Early Grades
  July 2012
  Worcester.com
  John Monfredo
• Are blacks ignoring proof that spanking has a negative impact?
  July 2012
  The Grio (NBC News)
  Kristen West Savali, Clutch Magazine
• Why Conservatives Are Wrong About Food Stamps
  June 2012
  International Business Times
  John Stoehr
• Mismeasuring Poverty
  June 2012
  American Prospect
  Mark Levinson
• This Week in Poverty: Disposable Families in Ohio
  June 2012
  The Nation
  Greg Kaufmann
• Lack of computer access a major hurdle for the poor
  June 2012
  Philly.com
  Alfred Lubrano
• From scrubbing floors to Ivy League: Homeless student to go to dream college
  June 2012
  Deseret News
  Elizabeth Stuart
• Sounders FC and the UPS Store Team up for Book Drive
  June 2012
  OSC Our Sports Central (Wash.)
  
• Pastor Creflo A. Dollar Police Report: Do You Still Support His Child Abuse?
  June 2012
  News One for Black America
  Kristen West Savali
• Black America can't rely on Obama alone
  June 2012
  CNN
  Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
• Lunch program continues during the summer months
  June 2012
  Geneseo Republic (Ill.)
  Claudia Loucks
• Study: Almost half of South Florida children live in low-income homes
  January 2012
  Sun-Sentinel Florida
  Donna Gehrke-White
• Despite Election Victories, Escalating Poverty and Inequality Remain Largely Ignored
  December 2011
  Truthout
  Ted Morgan / Op-Ed

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