"The
true measure of any society is how we take care of our children. With
all of our country’s resources, no child should ever have to grow up in
poverty. Yet every single night, all across America, kids go to sleep
hungry or without a place to call home.
We
have to do better. Advocating for children and families has been the
cause of my life, starting with my first job as a young attorney at the
Children’s Defense Fund, and if I have the honor of serving as
president, it will be the driving mission of my administration."
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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.
His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
http://www.americaisnotbroke.net/
Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)