Children and Families in the 2008 Campaign

Tom LaPointe is the director of Every Child Matters in Iowa. The Every Child Matters Education Fund is a public education campaign in the early presidential primary states. Its sole purpose is to help raise the visibility of children's issues and to make them a priority topic of policy debate throughout the 2008 presidential campaign. Issues to which attention is being drawn include the prevention of child abuse and neglect, improving the health of low-income children, and finding solutions in child care, early childhood education, after-school programs, and responsible decisions on federal budget and tax issues.