đ Families in New Jersey struggle to make sure their children are well cared for â especially families that work hard but canât make ends meet.
These issues are well documented. So is the research showing that the time from pregnancy to age 2 is crucial to brain development and that the more nurturing children receive in that period, the healthier they will be for the rest of their lives.
As Dr. Dana Suskind, professor of surgery and pediatrics at the University of Chicago Medical Center, put it, âIt’s time for policy to catch up with science.â Proof that it hasnât: A New America report says of the nationâs youngest children, âWe invest less in education than any other stage of life.