Head Start Preschoolers Told To Stay Home Due To Gov't Shutdown

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

ZOE SCHLANGER – OCTOBER 1, 2013, 3:42 PM EDT

Head Start preschoolers in eastern Alabama were told to stay home Tuesday and 240 employees were furloughed without pay after the U.S. government shut down for the first time in 17 years, MSNBC.com reported.

Though the preschool program for low-income families is operated locally, it relies in large part on federal grants awarded each year. For 23 Head Start programs in 11 states that service a combined 19,000 children, grant money rant out on Sept. 30, according to MSNBC.com. Some programs have alternative revenue sources and will remain open, but others will not. MSNBC.com notes that 770 preschoolers throughout the Cheaha region were told to stay home.

Automatic budget cuts known as sequestration cut $405 million out of Head Start funding in March. As a result, 57,000 children were dropped from the program nationwide

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[gopiscrap]

1. Fucking Republicans

I hope they will have to look those parents in the eye and have to explain to them that the GOP cares more about it's rich campaign contributors than about the welfare those poor parents children. FUCK THE GOP

[maxsolomon]

11. They will never look those parents in the eye

Those parents will never have the opportunity to confront their GOP congressman in person.

Sad, but that's the way this place works now.

[gopiscrap]

12. yeah I know

and I would think we would have a much kinder nation if that weren't so.

[maxsolomon]

20. Or ones with more punch-ups

Either way.

[inch4progress]

2. WOW

Republicans said "fuck you" to the most vulnerable, to the children. When they want to attack womens rights they use "children"as a weapon. When it comes to their responsibilities they forget or don't care about anything but their donors.
Sorry kids, you don't deserve to be treated like this.

[gopiscrap]

13. fuckers it's one of the reasons why we

need to get money out of politics.

[inch4progress]

14. I agree, id go futher, get worthless paper out of OUR ECONOMY

It only exists to allow people to accumulate perceivable power.

[Kber]

3. Could we send them to Congress instead?

I don't think they could do more damage running the House than the current group of babies there.

[KamaAina]

7. It'd never work.

They're overqualified.

[kelliekat44]

4. This makes me want to cry. nt

[florida08]

5. oh yeah that's family values

effing hypocrites

[Cryptoad]

6. That part of Alabama is hill folk

White and Republican,,,,,I bet they are cursing Obama

[azurnoir]

8. sadly this will make the Pukes day

they have as long as I can remember decried HeadStart as a taxpayer funded babysitting program so that "welfare" queens can enjoy the day sitting around their luxury homes smoking crack without any kids around to spoil the fun

[llmart]

10. Maybe crazy person Michele Bachmann can storm the doors.....

to the preschools and help the little tykes enter.

[progressivebydesign]

9. Oddly enough, toddlers and kids with cancer won't move the GOP

BUT.. this will: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2013/10/01/2712287/federal-shutdown-scraps-games.html

There will be some very very pissed of angry old white men if they dont' figure this out soon.

[Rhiannon12866]

15. There are going to be a lot of desperate working parents as long as this continues...

Not to mention confused and sad little kids.

[Tumbulu]

16. I bet a lot of children will be left alone

The draconian measures requiring parents to " work", as though parenting isn't the hardest work imaginable!!! mean that they have to be at work or they lose their support, or capacity to pay rent, etc. What a nightmare these treasonous poor excuses for humans have caused! For young and old alike !

[Rhiannon12866]

17. Between working and child care, so many are living on the edge, anyway

I know that nobody's saying it, but with all the disruption this is causing in people's lives, some people will actually die. Kids left alone, those furloughed from jobs, those who are working without pay, seniors who are without services they depend on. Nothing good can possibly come of this and countless people will be hurt, many we'll never even hear about.

[Tumbulu]

18. That is what I am feeling

And I am usually a very optimistic upbeat person.

[Rhiannon12866]

19. I'm feeling that, too. These guys are just oblivious.

And it makes me feel ill to see them yukking it up over shutting down the US government...