Policy Agenda for Dismantling the Prison Pipeline Millions of our children are bleeding from many wounds that we have the means but not the love and will as a nation to prevent and heal. Our Creator did not make two classes of children. It is our responsibility and within our power to make our nation see and protect all our children as the sacred gifts they are and not just as fodder for war, the prison industry or as a consumer market. Read more...   An Ounce of Prevention Is Most Cost-Effective in Long Run Education costs less than ignorance, preventive health care far less than emergency rooms, preventive family services less than out-of-home care, and Head Start much less than prisons.     Read more...   A Guide for Action Research underscore the critical need to devote attention and shift resources from locking up children and youth to getting them on the right track and helping them stay there. We found that:  Read more...   A Need for a Comprehensive Continuum of Support from Birth to Adulthood Children and families do not come in pieces or neat packages that fit one or another “program” or “strategy.” They are a complex amalgam of biological potential and environmental realities, of culture and family and community role models, of assets and risks. Read more...   Pervasive Poverty and Racial Disparities Poor children of color are the canaries in America’s deep mines of child neglect and racial and economic injustice. At critical points in their development, from birth through adulthood, millions of these children confront a multitude of disadvantages and risks including poverty and its many stresses: Read more...   End Poverty in America It is completely outrageous that the United States of America, the richest country in the world would tolerate the number of people living in poverty in America today.  Without the extensions to unemployment, the record number of people now living in poverty—46.1 million, 15.1% of the country and over 25% of Blacks and Hispanics—would have been much larger.  Read more...

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