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...broadest sense, Edelman's positions are extremely popular. Who, after all, would ever stand against children? In a recent TIME/CNN poll, 73% of those surveyed favor having more of their tax dollars go to programs that benefit the young. For the most part, that sentiment has proved beneficial. Since Edelman launched the Children's Defense Fund in 1973, American children are doing better in such areas as math and science proficiency, immunizations and infant survival rates, thanks in part to government action...
...Edelman learned early that you have to play politics to change lives. When Head Start funds were made available to the states in 1965, for example, Mississippi did not sign up. But a group of public, private and church organizations, with Edelman on its board, applied for the money and saw Head Start become a powerful catalyst in the state's black community. When then Senator John Stennis tried to get Congress to cut off its funding, Edelman, at that point 25, went to Washington to fight back--and won. "This was my first big lesson about government," she says...
...travels around the country stirring up support for the march in Washington, Edelman talks about "the silence of good people about the injustice of it all." By this she means, in large part, her old friend the President. Marian and her husband, Peter Edelman, a lawyer whom she met when he was an adviser to Bobby Kennedy, have known the Clintons for many years. Mrs. Clinton worked as a lawyer for the Children's Defense Fund, resigning from the board when she became First Lady. In August 1995, the President almost nominated Peter, who currently works for the Department...
...Coats thesis notwithstanding, many of the nonprofit groups that work with children have rallied to Edelman's call. Her Stand for Children has been endorsed by almost 3,000 organizations. Thousands of Girl Scouts are expected to attend, as well as thousands more teachers and members of the ywca and the ymca. The latter group, which serves 17 million children and families, and whose leadership is generally conservative, has gone out of its way to avoid the politics associated with the rally. "We hope not to be sidetracked by who is calling this event," says Y public-policy senior associate...
...should it be limited to children in poverty or in crisis. "Any broad-based politics about family issues is going to have to engage parents as citizens and as actors, not simply as objects of attention," says Theda Skocpol, a professor of government and sociology at Harvard, who believes Edelman must inspire "the missing middle," the working parents stressed out by juggling work and family. One reason why children's issues are likely to become a prominent campaign issue is that both parties are working hard to attract blue-collar mothers. "Women are more likely to vote the family issues...