More than a third of California’s roughly 39 million people are under 27 years old, three-quarters of them are nonwhite, and their families’ incomes are, for the most part, relatively low. Children Now, a 33-year-old advocacy organization based in Oakland and led by former Assemblyman , contends that the state is stingy when it comes to children’s wellbeing. That’s the theme of Children Now’s on the state’s youth. It’s 107 pages of issue-by-issue data, grades and proposals for a “pro-kid agenda.” “What’s particularly disturbing is that California continues to trail far behind other states on a number of important indicators of…
