In this edition, you’ll find stories about lawmakers working to reach a consensus on how to raise new revenue needed to protect vulnerable kids and families. You’ll also read about early learning bills that await Gov. Chris Gregoire’s signature, and First Lady Michelle Obama calling attention to “food deserts” where a lack of grocery stores stocked with fresh, healthy foods is driving up obesity rates in rural areas and low-income communities of color.

In this edition, you'll find articles comparing state budget and revenue solutions as lawmakers head toward a possible special session. You'll also read about an upcoming national campaign to raise parents' awareness of the well-researched benefits of early learning and a blog post on the nationwide call to Congress to preserve access to nutritious food for the nearly 1 in 4 children who faced hunger this past year. 

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In this edition, you'll find an op-ed co-authored by Dr. Benjamin
Danielson, Children's Alliance board vice president, making the case for improving children's health by taxing candy and soda. You'll also read a feature about Marcelas Owens, a child health care advocate and participant in the Children's Alliance's 2010 Have a Heart for Kid's Day, who is on his way to Washington, D.C., to honor his late mother's memory by urging lawmakers to provide everyone what his mother lacked: access to health care.

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The Children’s Alliance and other Early Learning Action Alliance members are celebrating a hard-earned victory today.

The Legislature has passed a bill that takes a step toward making early learning for infants and toddlers a top priority as our state builds and strengthens pre-kindergarten.