Huffington Post, By Jennifer Garner and Mark Shriver

A report card marked with too many C’s and D’s is not something to boast about. Unfortunately, those are just the kinds of grades America brought home yesterday, earning an overall C- in America’s Report Card 2012: Children in the U.S., released by Save the Children and First Focus.

While a C- isn’t an F, as a grade assigned to our country for the overall well-being of its children, it’s far from good enough. That’s why, yesterday morning in Washington, D.C., we gathered with Bruce Lesley (President, First Focus), former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), and Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) to release the report and to urge America to do better for our kids.

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