“Going back to California is not like going back to Vermont, or Chicago; Vermont and Chicago are relative constants, against which one measures one's own change. All that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears.” ChildhoodConstantRateDisappearCaliforniaChicagoRelativeVermont Book:Slouching towards Bethlehem Source: Slouching towards Bethlehem
“In Germany, many other countries, college tuition is free. Why isn`t free in America? Why do we have the highest rate of childhood poverty when other countries have rates much lower than we have? Why don`t we have pay equity for women workers? Why aren`t we leading the world in transforming our energy system in terms of climate change? We can do that. Are we dumb? Are we lazy? Not the case.” WorldCountryAmericaEnergyTermCan DoPayPovertyCasesChildhoodCollegeHighestClimateWorkersRateClimate ChangeDumbGermanyLazyOther CountriesEquityTransformingTuitionCollege Tuition Author:Bernie Sanders
“I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.” KnowsChildrenCareYoungPayQualityFocusChildhoodReturnResourcesInvestmentRateHealth CareYoung ChildrenHigh QualityDividendsBettingEarly Childhood Author:J.B. Pritzker
“We`re not going to let the United States continue to have one of the highest rates of childhood poverty in the industrialized world in - at a time when we`re seeing a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires.” WorldStatesUnitedPovertyUnited StatesSeeingChildhoodHighestRateMillionaireBillionaireProliferation Author:Bernie Sanders
“We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country and millions of people are struggling to put food on the table. It is my absolute conviction that everyone in this country deserves a minimum standard of living and we've got to go forward in the fight to make that happen.” PeopleWorldCountryHappensFightingPovertyMillionsStruggleChildhoodMajorsHighestStandardsDeserveAbsolutesTablesRateConvictionMinimumWorld HistoryStandards Of Living Author:Bernie Sanders
“Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence” Has BeensModernChildhoodRateBritainAdulthoodReplacedAdolescencePrematureModern Britain Author:Anthony Daniels
“Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.” IfsChildrenGovernmentAbleSchoolAmericaBlackWhitePoorQualityImagineChildhoodCollegeHigh SchoolProgramUniversalSticksRateGenuineGraduatesLatinoHigh QualityGood EducationEarly ChildhoodGoing To CollegeGraduating High SchoolEarly Childhood Education Author:Barack Obama
“If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a college problem. We need a big focus on early childhood education. Our early childhood education system is pretty good in this country. Not enough students have opportunity. And, very discouragingly, they lose their advantage because they go to poor schools after that. So, let's focus on our babies.” CountryEnoughProblemSchoolOpportunityGoalPoorFocusChildhoodStudentsCollegeBabyRateEducation SystemCompletionEarly Childhood Author:Arne Duncan