And for many working families, the idea of owing that much money means that higher education is simply out of reach for their children.

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The program was particularly important in areas where low-income families are living in difficult conditions, said Traci Lester, executive director of Reach Out and Read of Greater New York, a literacy nonprofit group that signed up children for the program.

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Over 18 months, the project will reach 30, 000 out-of-school children in Iraq, half of whom are girls.

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Middle-class parents still move out of the city into the suburbs when their children reach school-age because they mistrust Chicago's public schools.

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Specifically in their purpose was to reach out to children and Haitian children who might be the victims of child trafficking.

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Curious, ebullient and ever the optimist, Mr Cohen liked to reach out to damaged children and draw them back into the fold of normality.

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Today, Reach Out and Read annually serves more than 3.9 million children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years of age.

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