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The Milk Party: Making children a priority

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The Children's Movement of Florida was formed to take action and improve Florida's need for caring for our youth. Their mission statement: The Children’s Movement of Florida believes that the well-being and education of our children in Florida must be the highest priority of government, business, non-profit institutions and families. The economic future of our state and the stability of the communities we live in depend on achieving this goal. The major objective of the citizen-led, non-partisan Children’s Movement of Florida is to inform the political, business and civic leaders, and the parents and people of this state, about this issue – and encourage them to make the well-being and education of our children our highest priority, including in the way we invest our public resources. Why now or should we say, what took so long ? Scott Maxwell of the Orlando Sentinel recently wrote: The statistics about how we treat our children in this state should make y...