Current Issues for Advocacy

Building a Circle Of Protection Around Children’s Programs

In the face of historic deficits, the nation faces unavoidable choices about how to balance needs and resources and allocate burdens and sacrifices. These choices are economic, political—and moral.

Promise the Children believes that the moral measure of the debate is how the most poor and vulnerable people fare. We look at every budget proposal from the bottom up - how will the most vulnerable children be affected?

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Help End Hunger Petition

Sign the Petition to End Hunger

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From Bystander to Ally: A UU Approach to Bullying

Children in the US today face an epidemic bullying in school and at home through the internet and social media. Promise the Children is creating a program that will help UU Chuches to teach our youth to respond to bulling in a way that expresses UU values and enables them to feel empowered to make change in their communities..

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Public Education Reform

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. Horace Mann (1796-1859. U.S. educator, Unitarian, the first great American advocate of public education.)

Public Education is vital to the future of our children and to our democracy. Over the past 20 years there has been heated debate over the best road to creating a “world class” education for our country’s children. In the mean time there has been an ever-widening achievement gap.

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Going Forward on Health Care - No Repeal

With the New Year, comes a new Congress and new challenges for child health advocates. In 2010 we saw the passage of Health Care Reform legislation and in 2011 we will see that new law challenged continually by this new Congress. A vote for repeal in the House was raised and passed on January 19th and more attempts at repeal are likely. Although it is not likely to pass in the Senate it is important to understand what the new law provides in terms of relief for many who are suffering.

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Need for a Strong Nutrition Safety Net Has Never Been Greater

More than 50 million Americans lived in households struggling against hunger in 2009, according to new data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Of them, 17.2 million are children (23.2 percent of all children). Previously, in 2008, 49.1 million Americans were in food insecure households. The 2009 number is the highest since USDA first started the survey in 1995.

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Children Left Behind, A Documentary about High Stakes Testing

Watch a great video about the impact of MCAS tests on Massachusett’s children

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