Jack Levine is President of the Center for Florida's Children (www.floridakids.com), a private, not-for-profit citizens' organization founded in 1979 to make the state more child and family friendly. Mr. Levine serves on the boards of the National Association of Child Advocates, The Family Institute of the College of Human Sciences, Florida State University, and was a founding member of the Florida Commission on Responsible Fatherhood. His professional honors include Leadership Florida's Distinguished Alumnus Award, the Florida Juvenile Judges' Media Award, the Children's Home Society of Florida's Voice for Children Award, and being names 1990's Floridian of the Year by The Orlando Sentinel. [http://www.floridakids.com]

Julian Palmer is the Director of Communications and Publications for the National Center for Children in Poverty (www.nccp.org), located at the Mailman School of Public Health. The mission of NCCP is to identify and promote strategies that reduce the number of young children living in poverty in the United States, and that improve the life chances of the millions of children under age six who are growing up poor. Mr. Palmer has studied child development policy at Harvard University and social welfare policy at the International Graduate School of Stockholm University. During his tenure at NCCP he has edited a number of major reports including One in Four: America's Youngest Poor and NCCP's annual statistical updates on young child poverty. [http://www.nccp.org]

Elizabeth McCulloch is Director of Social Policy at the University of Florida's Center for Government Responsibility, the state's oldest legal and public policy research institute (www.law.ufl.edu/cgr). In additional to teaching in the area of poverty law and policy, Ms. McCulloch provides pro bono legal services to the poor through the Jacksonville Area Legal Aid. Ms. McCulloch's professional highlights include the Governors Commission on Child Support; President, Sexual and Physical Abuse Resource Center; Grants from Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Department of Education, State WAGES Board, AvMed, Florida Bar Foundation; Director, Florida Bar Foundation Public Service Law Fellows. [http://www.law.ufl.edu/cgr]