President's Budget Projects 300,000 Low-Income Children to Lose Child Care

[SillyGoose]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- According to the Administration's own calculations, an estimated 300,000 fewer low-income children will receive child care assistance by 2010. The President's budget would freeze child care funding for 2006- and projects that child care funding would remain frozen for the next five years, through 2010. Yet, child care assistance is critical to the success of low-income working families.

"Hundreds of thousands of parents across the United States are working hard, but not making enough to fully pay for the child care they need to keep their jobs," said Danielle Ewen, Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy. "These working parents should be supported, not penalized. But under this budget, with each passing year, it will become increasingly difficult for low-income families to get help with child care expenses."

Reports by the General Accounting Office (news - web sites) and the National Women's Law Center have shown that states have responded to frozen child care funding and rising costs by cutting working families from the program, raising the cost to families to participate, and reducing programs that improve the quality of care.

Last year's budget showed that in 2003, an estimated 2.5 million children were served by all major federal funding streams for child care. These funding streams include the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) block grant, and the Social Services Block Grant. According to the Administration's data, the number of children receiving child care fell to 2.3 million in 2004. These budget projections show that the number of children served will further decline to 2 million by 2010.

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[PatrioticOhioLiberal]

1. Compassionate Conservatism at its best! eom

[yellowcanine]

2. Welcome to the values administration. Well at least they support the

"Defense of Marriage" amendment. The kids may not have healthcare but gays won't be getting married so everything is ok - isn't that the new paradigm?

[rkc3]

4. Aparently they missed...

"When you do unto the least of my brethren, you do unto me."

Maybe that passage isn't included in the post-9/11 Bible.

[CoffeeCat]

3. No Child Left Behind....

...unless of course you're from a low-income family, then you're left behind, stomped on AND forgotten.

[peacetalksforall]

5. And they are all doing it with their suits and ties on.

This website is still churning. If you haven't spread the word about it - here it is =

http://www.costofwar.com

All those numbers in the categories below the big numbers are going to go up when combined with the new figures in the three (four?) inch thick death manual for our country that just rolled off the press from the Republicans.

Can you imagine the graphs zooming off the charts for cuts, spending, debt, death costs, bowerering power, dollar power, central bank power?

These are some mean souls. It all leads to slavery by the corporations who are one and the same with our politicians, military, banking, intelligence, and media.