A Call to Action
Category: POLITICS
In New York City, over 150,000 children under five are poor. Last year, nearly 20,000 of these children slept in homeless shelters - enough to fill Madison Square Garden. From the moment they're born, children in poverty face an uphill struggle to survive, thrive and learn with so many odds stacked against them.
By Marian Wright Edelman, ContributorPresident, Children's Defense Fund, 2016-05-08