Petition updatePoor children deserve a question in the presidential debatesSubmit YOUR #ChildPovertyQuestion for next week’s debate!
Israel Glenn with the Children’s Defense Fund
12 Dec 2019

The final debate of the year is just a week away, and we need your help to get our question asked. Debate hosts Politico and PBS are asking viewers to submit the questions you want to hear in next week’s debate. Will you take 30 seconds to tell them you want a question about child poverty for the first time in a generation?

The last debate of 2019 will take place next Thursday in California, a state where 1.5 million children live in poverty. Those children and all poor children in America deserve to hear from the presidential candidates about what they’ll do to lift them out of poverty and give them the chance to reach their full potential.

The moderators need to know that we can’t wait any longer for a child poverty question. It’s been more than 20 years since the question has been asked. Enough is enough.

Please click the links below to submit your question about child poverty to the moderators. You can also feel free to use our question:

One in six children in the United States is growing up in poverty. In the wealthiest nation on Earth, children are going hungry, are homeless, dropping out of school, and working to support their families. This costs our country an estimated $1 trillion every year. What is your plan to lift these 11.9 million children out of poverty?

Click here to submit a question to POLITICO.

Click here to submit a question to PBS.

Thank you for helping us demand answers for America’s children.

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