]> http://www.connectforkids.org/taxonomy/term/531,284/all en http://www.connectforkids.org/node/3792 <div class="moderated-chat"> <div class="transcript"> <div class="moderated-chat-date">Transcript of live chat (1/18/2006)</div><p>Every day in America, almost 2,500 babies are born into poverty and for the fourth year in a row, children’s poverty has increased. But sometimes it takes a dramatic event, like the hurricanes in the Gulf, to turn our attention to the challenges facing families who barely get by.</p> <p>On January 18 Connect for Kids will host a Talktime Live! online chat with poverty experts and practitioners who have dedicated their lives to improving the conditions of impoverished children, in the aftermath of a natural disaster as well as those, especially families of color, who live their lives everyday in unsparing poverty.</p> </div> </div> Low Wage Families & Poverty Talktime Online Chats Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:55:55 -0600