The wages of many child care workers in metro Atlanta are so low that they qualify for federal assistance programs meant for the poor.
There is no evidence that immigrant families in the United States who come from South Asia are more likely to mistreat live-in child care workers.
Grose writes that if US child care providers increased that ratio, they could pay their day care workers more.
It also includes schools and Head Start participants, struggling families for whom child care support is critical, unemployed workers who need job training programs -- all would lose out in the nondefense portion of sequestration.
At the same time, business needs to extend some social-insurance schemes to cover non-regular workers, and improve conditions for non-regular workers with such things as better child-care provision and more training.
Others trap workers in low-paid fields such as child care, and some even signal to employers the holder's weak academic record.
All too often, according to Crook, there are no social workers at the prison gate to greet a child entitled to care on release.
Reductions in many agencies enabled large expansions in others, like Family and Social Services, which added hundreds of workers to stem a crisis in the foster care and child protection system.
The Family and Medical Leave Act, which applies to private companies with 50 or more employees, guarantees workers who need to care for a seriously ill parent, child or sibling up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave.
The advocates are pressing on, with policy proposals including expanding the FMLA to cover workers in small businesses, providing paid leave for working caregivers to care for an ill child, spouse, or parent or to take family members to routine medical appointments, and requiring employers to provide employees with a reasonable number of paid sick days to care for themselves or a family member.
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They chose to protect my tax cut, while cutting 140, 000 unemployed workers out of their job training programs, 100, 000 working families out of their child care assistance, and worst of all, while cutting 300, 000 poor children out of their after-school programs, when we know it keeps them off the streets, out of trouble, in school, learning, going to college and having a good life.
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