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 Action for Children North Carolina's budget report entitled Children in the Federal and State Budgets: A Declining Priority?
outlines the declines in our federal and state commitments to children
in recent years and offers recommendations for how our leaders should
address children's issues in a time of economic crisis.
Over the past five years, in the federal budget outside of defense
spending, the share of spending going to children's programs has
declined by 10 percent. In 2008, children's spending made up only 10
percent of the federal, non-defense budget. Meanwhile in North
Carolina, spending on children outside of health care and public
education has declined over the past eight years. Spending on
children's services is expected to decline even further this year.
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