Edelman fosters health, education for kids in '93 - Children's Defense Fund president Marian Wright Edelman outlines 1993 agenda - Brief Article

Jet, Jan 11, 1993

Marian Wright Edelman president of the Children's Defense Fund, says that there are certain glaring areas that Americans can work toward improving for children in the new year:

"Let me suggest two things that I know this great country can do in 1993 ... The first ... is to make sure that every one of our children is born healthy and is immunized against preventable diseases," Edelman said. "It is a scandal that fewer than 60 percent of our preschool children are fully immunized in most of our states.

"The other thing that I know that this country can do ... is to see that every child gets ready for school. And a down payment on that is to see that every one of our children gets a head start by fully funding Head Start, making it a full-day, full-year, taking it down to earlier ages."