Judy Patrick and Ted Lempert, The Sacramento Bee, June 3, 2014—California’s ability to thrive as the world’s ninth-largest economy depends on us reducing poverty and raising children who can become educated, healthy and stable workers. Yet we have an exclusionary policy that contributes to 1 in 5 California children living in poverty. In a state where 500,000 infants are born each year and nearly half of all children are already growing up in a low-income household, this is of substantial concern.