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Despite a state mandate to provide high-quality preschool to low-income children across the state, New Jersey has yet to fund this critical early education. What can you do? Plenty! And it doesn’t have to take a lot of time. Your state lawmakers, the governor and our representatives in Congress need to hear that their constituents […]

Contact: Nancy Parello, Communications Director, Advocates for Children of New Jersey, (908) 399-6031, nparello@acnj.org As New Jersey embarks on a plan to improve child care quality, child care providers say they operate on shoestring budgets that prevent them from delivering the best possible care to young children, according to a new report released today. In […]

Contact: Nancy Parello, Communications Director, Advocates for Children of New Jersey, 973-643-3876, 908-399-6031, nparello@acnj.org Nearly 646,000 New Jersey children lived in families earning too little to meet their needs in 2012 – a 19 percent increase since 2008, according to new US Census data released today. That means that an additional 102,000 New Jersey children […]

Contact:  Nancy Parello,(908) 399-6031, nparello@acnj.org As New Jersey embarks on a plan to improve child care quality, child care providers say they operate on shoestring budgets that prevent them from delivering the best possible care to young children, according to a new report released today. In a statewide survey and focus groups conducted by Advocates […]