Benton Harbor Editorial Calls for More Investment in Young Children and Their Mothers

According to an editorial in today's Benton Harbor Herald Palladium:

"Michigan's Children is a Lansing-based organization that advocates on the behalf of children and their families. According to a recent Budget Basics report issued by the organization, "More than one of every five (22.4 percent) Michigan children under the age of 5 lives in poverty, and poverty rates are disproportionately high for children of color."

Let me repeat: More than one in every five Michigan children live in poverty. If this was the flu, it would be called an epidemic. Yet, I hear few, if any, of our leaders in Lansing or locally talking about the issue."

The full editorial may be found at:

heraldpalladium.com/articles/2010/03/10/opinion/editorials/1261636.txt