31.   And support remains, including a grandfather who stopped off at the courthouse to call the uniforms the greatest thing ever for poor children.

32.   And poor children, they argue, are particularly in need of child care that offers an enriched environment in which they are encouraged to learn.

33.   And private schools are out of the question for poor children.

34.   And the percentage of poor young children with working parents has increased substantially in that period.

35.   Another part of the bill aims to strengthen the educational component of federally financed Head Start program, which targets poor children.

36.   Anyone who bothered to read the fine print and decipher its confusing text would have learned their signature did more than help poor children.

37.   As Luntz confirms, the campaign is hurting Republican incumbents who want to cut programs for the elderly and disadvantaged poor children.

38.   At the height of the debate over welfare reform the vision of hordes of poor children were proffered by both sides.

39.   At the Institute, Rotherham worked the Heritage Foundation and other groups to broker a compromise on how best to use federal education dollars to help poor children.

40.   At the same time, it voted to slash federal Medicaid spending, virtually forcing states to kick millions of poor children out of the program.