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WASTING AMERICA'S FUTURE: THE CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND REPORT ON THE COST OF CHILD POVERTY
by Arloc Sherman; Introduction by Marian Wright Edelman; Foreword by Robert M. Solow.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1994. 154 pp. $18.00 (paper).
Whenever I want to know what is going on with the nation's poor children, I turn to the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) for clear, unsullied information. Over the years that I have been reading the CDF reports, I have noted that their sources of information are impeccable -- including the U.S. Census Bureau, the Centers for Disease Control, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, and...