Because of deficit budget cuts, states are either eliminating or tightening eligibility requirements for child care programs that used to serve the working poor.
It quietly began to run child-care programs in churches to supplement overcrowded government-run ones.
President Obama, how will you address the failings of TANF and child care assistance programs to keep up with increased demand?
Among Clinton's VIP box guests will be Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health, and Florida Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, whose state education and child-care programs are sources of some of the national proposals advocated by the president.
The federal government also provides means tested assistance through multiple programs for child care, education, job training, and the Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), the Social Services Block Grant, the Community Services Block Grant, and the Legal Services Corporation, among other programs.
Democrats assailed the Republican agenda, saying line-by-line details of the resolution revealed sharp cuts in child-care and other social aid programs, including Medicare.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the pair helped pass bills to fund child care, AIDS treatment and prevention programs, and children's health insurance, among other things.
Tihar Jail embraced a series of reforms in the 1990s and today boasts child-care facilities, meditation and yoga programs, music classes and skill-building training projects.
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.
Leslie Norwalk is administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which directs day-to-day operations of Medicare, Medicaid, Child Health Insurance Programs, Survey and Certification of health care facilities and other federal health care initiatives.
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.
Social programs have sprouted to fill a void in American child care.
This investment will focus on our existing infrastructure of federally-funded programs such as Early Head Start, and the Child Care and Development Fund to expand services and boost their quality.
The city mandates that under-2 programs hire more staff members per child than other child-care businesses, said Frank Cresciullo, assistant commissioner at the city's Bureau of Child Care.
The wages of many child care workers in metro Atlanta are so low that they qualify for federal assistance programs meant for the poor.
Expenses for a child in nursery school, preschool, or similar programs for children below the level of kindergarten are deductible for purposes of the child care tax credit if they otherwise qualify as child care.
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