EXCERPT FROM: Politico
By Erika Lovley
Congressional staffers compare getting child care on Capitol Hill to landing season tickets to the Redskins: nice idea, never going to happen.

EXCERPT FROM: The Washington Informer
By Norma Porter Anthony
As District Mayor Adrian M. Fenty prepares to release his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2011, on April 1, a group of frustrated District residents wanted to make sure that he heard them loud-and-clear.

EXCERPT FROM: The Washington Post
By Donna St. George
There was the stress of the recession, then the record-setting snow. Finally, as February gave way to March, here's how the fallout looked at a Bladensburg child-care center:

EXCERPT FROM: Washington Post
By Petula Dvorak
I really thought it wouldn't get much worse than the unpaid college internship.

EXCERPT FROM: The Washington Informer
By Norma Porter
Fahim Shabazz, a father of two small children, works as an events service supervisor at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park in Northwest at night. After his eight-hour shift, he hurries home to take care of his four-year-old daughter Aaliyah. Before the bell rings at 3 p.m., he’s at Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School in Southeast to pick up his five-year-old daughter Saniyah. It’s become a part of his daily routine.

EXCERPT FROM: NewsChannel 8
WASHINGTON - The Wilson Building knows protests; its steps are stamped with a cause nearly every day.

WASHINGTON - Parents across Washington are scrambling to find affordable child care after learning that more than a dozen city-run day cares are shutting their doors.

Child-care workers, parents and community activists, angry about the closing of 13 District child-care centers and the privatization of the city's child-care services, demonstrated in front of the John A. Wilson Building on Tuesday to support council legislation that would stop the process.

The equation seems simple.

On Saturday, Aug. 29, from 11am-1pm,  DC residents, brought together by the organization Empower DC, will meet at the Martin Luther Library in NW as part of the City-Wide Summit on the Child Care Crisis. The summit aims to inform DC residents of upcoming plans to close 13 Department of Parks & Recreation (DPR) centers and privatize them, laying off 160 DPR workers.