End Child Poverty Bus Tour
by SBCSSanDiego
END CHILD POVERTY BUS TOUR KICKS OFF IN CHULA VISTA
Senator Ben Hueso along with more than 200 students, parents, civic, business and community leaders to join in morning rally.
Led by the End Child Poverty in California coalition, the statewide End Child Poverty tour will bring together thousands from communities throughout the state to demand action on our child poverty crisis. The tour will launch in Chula Vista and will make stops and hold open press events in Los Angeles, Pomona, Weedpatch, Fresno, Salinas, Oakland, and Sacramento. Residents from each community will join the bus tour to share their lived experiences with poverty and showcase the wide range of challenges across the different parts of California and the common threads among communities.
The End Child Poverty Plan will eliminate deep child poverty in four years and cut overall child poverty in half in 10-20 years by investing in programs that support families. Over 30 bills representing the plan are moving through the Legislature right now.
CHULA VISTA SCHEDULE: Friday, May 17, 9:15 to 10 a.m.
Castle Park High School, 1395 Hilltop Dr., Chula Vista, CA 91911
Visuals: Crowd of 200+ including students; wrapped bus, bus loading/departure
Speakers Include:
Senator Ben Hueso,
SUHSD Superintendent and Students
Manpower SD CEO Phil Blair
Children’s Initiative CEO Sandy McBrayer
District Director Office of Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez office Francine Maigue
Task Force Co-Chair Conway Collis
Monique Rosas of Parent Voices San Diego
South Bay Community Services
former foster youth
BUS TOUR PLANNING & SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS:
GRACE
CA Interfaith Coalition
CA Youth Connection
Children NOW
Children’s Defense Fund CA
Children’s Institute
Cradle to Career
Daughters of Charity
Dolores Huerta Foundation
Latinas for Reproductive Justice
Mission Economic Development Agency
Parent Voices
South Bay Community Services
Western Center for Law & Poverty
Youth Policy Institute
See All Coalition Partners: www.endchildpovertyca.org/#partners
BACKGROUND
The report issued by the Task Force pegs the cost of the four-year plan to eliminate deep child poverty for 450,000 California children starting at $1.6 billion the first year. If concentrated as a population, 450,000 would represent the state’s eighth largest city — larger than Oakland, twice as large as San Bernardino, and just smaller than Long Beach. When fully realized, savings generated by lifting these children from poverty would total $12 billion annually, on an ongoing basis, representing a dramatic return on investment.
California has the highest number of children and highest percentage of children living in poverty of any state in the nation — almost 2 million children, who represent one out of every five California kids. Deep poverty is defined as families living at or below 50 percent of the federal poverty line, or less than about $12,500 for a family of four. In addition, 204,000 California children experience homelessness.
For background and to read the plan, visit: www.endchildpovertyca.org/
