Marguerite Casey Foundation Unveils 2012 Equal Voice National Family Platform and Policy Recommendations
Report Cites Recession Has Changed Little for Poor FamiliesLOS ANGELES—Just as politicians are ramping up for the fall elections, Marguerite Casey Foundation unveiled, and families ratified, the 2012 Equal Voice National Family Platform in Los Angeles on July 23, 2012 – a report outlining the issue and policy priorities of 6,000 poor families surveyed from Alabama to California. The issue that the families – 55 percent of whom live on less than $25,000 a year – cited as their top priority? Education. “To hear politicians and pundits tell it, poor families want only one thing – more