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How Kid-Friendly Is Your City? Population Connection Releases Its Kid-Friendly Cities Report Card 2004 for New York

Posted on: Monday, 21 June 2004, 06:00 CDT

News Advisory:

-- How Kid-Friendly Is Your City? Population Connection Releases its Kid-Friendly Cities Report Card 2004 for New York

WHEN:

Tuesday June 22, 2004 at 10 a.m.

WHERE:

CS 154,

Harriet Tubman School,

250 West 127 St. (Adam Clayton Powell- 7th Ave.),

New York, NY 10027

WHO:

-- Peter H. Kostmayer, President, Population Connection

-- Elizabeth Jarrett, Principal, Harriet Tubman School

-- Anthony R. Smith, President, Horticultural Society of New York

-- And the students from Harriet Tubman School who are involved in the Horticultural Society of New York's Apple Seed program in the garden that the kids have built.

The Kid-Friendly Cities Report Card 2004 is Population Connection's ninth biennial report, which ranks America's 100 largest cities and grades the quality of life of children in major urban areas.

New York City ranked 6th in the Major City category with an overall grade of B+.

In addition to the 16 indicators, Population Connection also identified one project in each city that helps improve the quality of life of kids in that community and the Apple Seed was the program chosen in New York City.

The complete report is at http://www.kidfriendlycities.org

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Population Connection is America's largest grassroots population organization working to educate people about the impacts of rapid population growth on all aspects of peoples' lives and their environment. Population Connection believes that overpopulation threatens the quality of life for people everywhere.

Population Connection is the national grassroots population organization that educates young people and advocates progressive action to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by Earth's resources.

http://www.usnewswire.com

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