Child Care Cuts

Quinn Stalls Child Care Cuts With Medicare Premium Funds

Posted 05.10.2012

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A week after Gov. Pat Quinn's office raised concerns over whether the state could afford to maintain subsidized childcare services through the fiscal ...

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Let's Pull Families Back From the Edge

Judy Patrick | Posted 01.29.2012

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Judy Patrick

In today's economy, where budget cuts seem to be an easy fix, we are constantly placing families' well-being on the edge of a very steep cliff with no sign of a safety net.

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Child Care Cuts a Body Blow to New York's Working Parents

Dan Collins | Posted 06.21.2011

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Dan Collins

Subsidized child care has few advocates in the tangled world of New York City politics. Cut senior citizen centers or libraries or - God forbid - a firehouse, and the City Council will hear shrieks from their district. Child care, not so much.

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Child Care Cuts Force Parents Back on Welfare

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

Poor and already vulnerable mothers and children are being hard hit by budget cuts to child care assistance, leaving working parents without child-care help, making them lose their jobs, and forcing them back onto welfare.

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