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Continue reading →: America’s military ineligibility crisis: 77 percent of young adults are disqualified from serviceRetired military leaders in Illinois say we cannot wait for adulthood to address the factors that limit opportunities for young Americans.
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Continue reading →: Working to improve early childhood facilities’ construction & repairsIn bolstering young children’s learning and development, some of the most concrete investments we can make are those quite literally involving concrete, steel, and other building materials.
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Continue reading →: Federal agents’ incursion into early childhood center is bad for kids & for business, local chamber execs writeIn a letter to the Chicago Tribune, ReadyNation members from two chambers of commerce expressed concern after masked federal immigration agents pulled a teacher from a local early childhood classroom.
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Continue reading →: Poll: Illinois business leaders strongly support early childhood investments to counter child care, skills-gap concernsIn ReadyNation’s statewide survey of business executives, 91.5% of respondents voiced support for “greater public investments in high-quality child care and early childhood education” to boost workforce stability and quality.
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Continue reading →: Civic Leaders for Illinois Children (CLIC) has a new online home!Uniting three unique groups of Illinois civic leaders, CLIC advocates for effective investments in children that strengthen public safety, the economy, and our national security. Read more about CLIC here. On this website, you’ll find the perspectives of our state’s business leaders (ReadyNation Illinois), law enforcement leaders (Fight Crime: Invest…
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