Children and Family Issues on the Campaign Trail:
Polling, Politics & Policy 

Join St. Louis Children's Agenda partners for a live web cast presented by Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago and the Urban Institute. This audio cast will examine aspects of key children and family issues in an election year.
   WHAT: Children and Family Issues on the Campaign Trail 
   WHEN: Thursday, May 8, 2008, 7:45 AM - 9:45 AM
   WHERE: St. Louis Children's Agenda Offices, 2433 N. Grand Boulevard
   (N. Grand Blvd. & N. Market St. in the Sts. Teresa & Bridget Church complex)

As voters weigh candidates' positions on domestic issues, differing views about the government's role in helping children and families will come into play. What do members of the public believe about children and families? How do their beliefs overlap or conflict with the research and policy evidence and the demographic and economic trends that shape family life?

Continuing our yearlong conversation about policies and programs affecting children, families, and their communities, this month's panel will discuss how demographic changes in America's child population, led by shifts in family structure, immigration, fertility rates, and ethnic diversity, intersect with public policy in nuanced ways. Panelists will probe public opinion about child and family issues, including education and health care, and will examine how these topics are, or are not, being addressed in national and local campaigns. Finally, the panel will analyze how policy that is responsive to the public's beliefs and wants can play out at the federal, state, and local levels.

Please join us in exploring the facts and perceptions that will help shape the next generation of policy for American children.

Speakers:
  Christopher Blunt, president, Overbrook Research
  Anna Greenberg, senior vice president, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research
  Olivia Golden, senior fellow, Urban Institute
  Matthew Stagner, executive director, Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago
  Moderator: Wendy Koch, reporter, USA Today

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Link to the CHAPIN HALL Center for Children at the University of Chicago
Link to the URBAN INSTITUTE web site on children