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Article: Providing health insurance for New Jersey's kids
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- September 9, 2008
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RAYMOND J. CASTRO
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
09-09-2008
Providing health insurance for New Jersey's kids
By RAYMOND J. CASTRO
Date: 09-09-2008, Tuesday
Section: OPINION
Edtion: All Editions
THE BEGINNING of the school year is something we've come to view as something natural, like the turning of the fall leaves. Public education is a benefit we can take for granted because long ago we as a society decided to pay for it by pooling everyone's tax dollars.
In New Jersey, that's been the case since 1875, and earlier than that in many states. Few today would question the need for compulsory, universal public education. We make the resources needed to fund it available as a right that reflects one ...