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Kids First

Kids First

Five Big Ideas for Transforming Children’s Lives and America’s Future
David Kirp (Author)
July 2012
Trade Paperback · 304 Pages
$15.99 U.S. · $18.50 CAN · £10.99 U.K. · €11.99 E.U.
ISBN 9781610391030
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Description

While parents work longer hours for less and the costs of childcare, healthcare, and college skyrocket, the share of the U.S. budget spent on kids has fallen 22 percent since 1960. In Kids First, policy expert David Kirp issues a visionary call for renewing, revamping, and reenergizing public support for children, and offers inspiring, on-the-ground accounts of five big cradle-to-college initiatives that can change the arc of all children's lives.

About the Author

David L. Kirp, a professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. His previous books include Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line.