Position papers

Children's Alliance staff, board members and collaborators regularly write and distribute position papers on a variety of issues affecting children and families.

Please also visit our Current issues page.

• Guest presentation: Science, Policy, and the Young Developing Child: Closing the Gap Between What We Know and What We Do, by Jack P. Shonkoff, MD
  (PDF, November 21, 2005)
  Guest commentary: Protect consumers from predators, by Jonathan Baird (Oct. 22, 2005)
• Guest commentary: Consumer protection? Don't bank on it, by Jonathan Baird (Oct. 2, 2005)
• Same-sex marriage: Help gay and lesbian parents provide for their children; testimony to Commission To Study All Aspects Of Same Sex Civil Marriage And The Legal Equivalents Thereof … (Sept. 12, 2005)
• Poverty: Statewide poverty data doesn’t tell the whole story (Sept. 9, 2005)
• Guest commentary: How part-time worker benefits were won, by Jonathan Baird (July 8, 2005)
• Guest commentary: We need the Violence Against Women Act, by Grace Mattern (July 7, 2005)
• Guest commentary: Proposed state Medicaid cuts are a budget boomerang, by Jonathan Baird (June 6, 2005)
• Minimum wage: Poverty is a children's issue in New Hampshire; testimony to Senate Banks committee on House Bill 665 (May 10, 2005)
• Kindergarten: Kindergarten is in New Hampshire's economic best interest (April 15, 2005)
• Tobacco tax Issue Brief: For a healthier state, for a healthier budget (April 8, 2005)
• Guest commentary: Time to raise the minimum wage, by Jonathan Baird (March 24, 2005)
• Public education standards: Children's Alliance urges Board of Education not to abandon students (March 3, 2005)
• Federal budget: Keeping our kids healthy is vital for a better America (March 1, 2005)
• Guest commentary: Gun seizure bills deserve to fail, by Jonathan Baird (Feb. 3, 2005)
• Federal budget: Letters to Senators Judd Gregg and John Sununu (Feb 22-23, 2005)
• Federal budget: President’s budget would cut vital programs for children and families while extending and expanding tax cuts to the most affluent (Feb. 22, 2005)
• Medicaid: Why replace a successful Healthy Kids program with an untested scheme? (Jan. 3, 2005)
• Public education standards: Requirements should include individual learning plans, choice of half- and full day kindergarten, in-school physical education, phonological testing, smaller class sizes, suicide prevention plans (Jan. 3, 2005)

2004

• Guest commentary: An education advantage is more important than a tax advantage to a strong economy, by Ross Gittell (Dec. 3, 2004)
• Guest commentary: Stephen's secret attack on Medicaid, by Jonathan Baird (Nov. 19, 2004)
• Child protection Issue Brief: The $200,000 choice: Will NH upgrade its child protective services through accreditation? (October 2004)
• Medicaid: New Hampshire's GraniteCare Medicaid proposal will put families between a rock and a hard place (October 2004)
• Kindergarten: Full-day kindergarten is an essential part of education choice (Oct. 5, 2004)
• Guest commentary: NH Medicaid "modernization" is pure smoke and mirrors, by Jonathan Baird (July 24, 2004)
• Guest commentary: Medicaid block grant is a dangerous idea, by Jonathan Baird (May 2004)
• Children's services: Sound investments in children are not only smart politics, they’re smart policy (March 5, 2004)
• Education funding: Education funding amendment is an assault on New Hampshire's Constitution (Jan. 16, 2004)

2003 and earlier

• Guest commentary: Homeless shelters are overflowing -- where's the urgency? by Jonathan Baird (Oct. 26, 2003)
• Children's Dental Health Month: A time to think about fluoridation (April 2002)
• Abandoned babies: Testimony on HB 289 (May 29, 2001)
• Out-of-school time: Risks and opportunities for New Hampshire youth (Feb. 14, 2001)
• Election debates: Where were our children? (December 2000)
• National leader lauds NH Child Advocacy Network (NH CAN) at third annual Children's Summit (Sept. 28, 2000)
• Guest commentary: Criminalizing youth, by Jonathan Baird. (Sept. 17, 2000)