EXCERPT FROM: Huffington Post
By David Gray
Even as our nation's unemployment rate has fallen to 8.5%, unemployment remains stubbornly high in many areas. States like California, Nevada and Mississippi, in addition to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, experience unemployment rates significantly above the national average.
EXCERPT FROM: The Salt Lake Tribune
By Brooke Adams
Clearfield • As the “for sale” sign in front of the Family Connection Center’s respite and crisis nursery buildings in Clearfield signals, it is not just the center’s clients that are in need of help.
EXCERPT FROM: Citizens Voice
By David Singleton
The head of the Employment Opportunity and Training Center of Northeastern Pennsylvania said the tragedy of Gov. Tom Corbett's new budget cuts is not that state funding for the agency's Scranton Area Family Center will be slashed 10 percent.
EXCERPT FROM: 13WHAM.com
By Alexis Arnold
Rochester, N.Y. - The Flesch family budget is tight.
Their child care expense is not for one, but two kids, a four-year-old and a three-month-old.
EXCERPT FROM: WDBJ7.com
By Kimberly McBroom
ROANOKE, Va.— If you're a working parent, you know that quality child care doesn't come cheap.
EXCERPT FROM: NBC17.com
By Charlotte Huffman
RALEIGH, N.C. -- State budget cuts are being blamed for how illegal daycare centers are slipping through the cracks in North Carolina.
EXCERPT FROM: The News Tribune
By Joel Ryan
Washington’s youngest children are struggling more every day; our state’s Head Start and preschool programs see this firsthand. As more families lose jobs and homes due to the recession, our programs have seen their wait lists more than double, with more than 20,000 children eligible but left out.
EXCERPT FROM: McCook Suburban Life
By Staff
Brookfield, IL — Area police chiefs recent met with state Sen. Steven Landek, Burbank, to urge support for quality early childhood programs to prevent future crime.
EXCERPT FROM: Springfield News-Sun
By Josh Sweigart
Taxpayers spend $420 more per child subsidizing child care in Clark County than in neighboring Champaign County, according to a Springfield News-Sun analysis of the program meant to help low-income parents hold jobs.
EXCERPT FROM: News Net 5
By Joe Pagonakis
CLEVELAND - Picking a new day care for your children can be a painstaking process that can take weeks of interviews, visits and research.