Sharing Web Resources Week 6

On the Children's Defense Fund website this week I followed a link to an article on the Washington Post website about child poverty. The article talked about how little attention child poverty received on the presidential campaign trail. President Obama says there needs to be a "national conversation" about poverty. The author of the article, Jonathan Capehart, said it is time to move from talk to action.

One of the areas of the website is "Be careful what you cut". I decided to explore this campaign further and found sample letters for advocates to send to their representatives as well as pictures showing the results of cutting early childhood programs and what the later consequences will be. The website encourages you to download these pictures to your social media sites or in this case I downloaded to my blog.
                                                                          


One of the most disturbing links for me personally was a link that showed the amount of gun deaths of children by state. I found that Louisiana has the second highest rate of gun deaths with Alaska being the highest. I had no idea until I read this that gun deaths were that bad in my state. Children's Defense Fund is very passionate about gun control and is calling for help for all who advocate for children.

Marian Wright Elder, president of the Children's Defense Fund wrote about a civil rights leader, Medgar Evers in her column. She wrote about the impact that his kindness had on her when she was a young law student. She said he would be thrilled to see an African American president and that Mississippi leads the nation in black elected officials. She also adds that he would be very disappointed to see that black children are still getting separate, unequal, and a failing education in Mississippi and that this state has the highest child poverty.