Today, Governor Chris Christie sign into law a fund that will dedicate state dollars to feed children facing hunger, helingp defray the costs of effectively implementing the federal schoolbreakfast and summermeals programs in high-poverty communities.
Cynthia Rice meets with Congressman Albio Sires to discuss health care, child care and preschool.
Check out how your county is doing.
Thanks to Sen. Diane Allen’s leadership, bill S447 provides for a concerted effort to reduce the 147,000 chronically absent students in NJ.
Tell your state legislators that YOU support additional funding for preschool!
On 6/28/2017, join us at a rally to say, “150 years is enough.” Time to close NJ’s largest youth prison, New Jersey Training School for Boys (Jamesburg.)
The Food Research & Action Center’s Hunger Doesn’t Take A Summer Vacation: Summer Nutrition Status Report, ranked NJ high for summer meals, but many kids still missing out.
State ranks second in education nationwide but lags in economic well-being
Get the latest scoop on child care, NJ summer meals and our very own NJ top policymaker Cecilia Zalkind.
ACNJ’ study found that less than a third of children under age 3 have access to center-based child care across New Jersey.
