Getting and keeping a job requires knowing someone who has a job and being able to get to work. The success of 28 million children depends on our ability to provide quality after-school programs. Access to capital is essential to moving ahead in our society. It translates to homeownership, more education for a parent and her children, the ability to start a business, qualify for loans, and accumulate assets. We must have incentives for traditional financial institutions to broaden access.
Access almost means availability.
Affordable and available health services from prenatal care to dental care is critical to every aspect of community well-being and prosperity. While we can't do everything as civic consumers, we must require and demand that what works in these ten areas be made, be sustained, and be funded. Our view on civic issues must be clearer, our horizons wider, and our hope for the future unstoppable. Our responsibility and our rights in the end require that we put into practice what really works. Centers for Disease Control.