Bush Budget Would Eliminate RIF (Reading is Fundamental)

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http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/1300024530.html

And who doesn't love RIF? Since 1966, it's been a dynamic program providing books to underprivileged children and encouraging them to read; now its very existence is threatened.

According to Kevin Howell of Publishers Weekly, RIF's CEO and president Carol Rasco tells us that if Bush’s budget is approved, 4.6 million children will not receive 16 million free books in 2009. RIF has been funded by Congress and six Administrations without interruption since 1975. It is the oldest and largest children’s and family nonprofit literacy organization in the U.S...


To help save Reading is Fundamental:

http://capwiz.com/rif/issues/alert/?alertid=11150206&type=CO&azip=20010

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EDIT: To add pissed-off smiley.