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Bishop Beckwith in the Star-Ledger: "Incoming legislature must fight childhood poverty"

Bishop in the Star-Ledger: "Incoming legislature must fight childhood poverty"
By: 
The Rt. Rev. Mark M. Beckwith, Bishop of Newark

Few New Jersey voters went to the polls Tuesday, and I imagine that fewer still hold out any hope that the new state Senate or Assembly will make a material difference in their lives.

In fact, the New Jerseyans who have the most at stake did not vote at all, and their interests were lost in the typical pre-election din. Our state’s poor children, a special-interest group that gets larger every day, could find their fortunes changed considerably by the 120 members of the incoming Legislature, but we have to help.