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Issue: Early Childhood Education and Youth Services
Save Child Care and After-School for over 47,000 Children!
Tell Mayor Bloomberg and your policymakers to restore devastating budget cuts to fund high-quality child care and after-school systems.
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- $220,000+
a year for state juvenile justice placements
- ½ as many
children are in foster care now than a decade ago
- 20%
of NYC public school children are obese
- 30%
of NYC children live in poverty
- 1.8 million
children in NYC
- 1 million+
children in NYC public schools
- 19,000+
NYC children sleeping in homeless shelters tonight
- 18,800+
children in NYC Head Start
- 40,000+
NYC children slept in homeless shelters last year
- 95%
of NYC children have health insurance
- 100,000+
NYC youth applied but didn’t get summer youth employment jobs




