EXCERPT FROM: KPLU
By Gary Davis
(KPLU) - Among the budget cuts announced by Governor Chris Gregoire on Thursday are child care subsidies to families on welfare. Gregoire says September's revenue forecast is likely to be bleak, and the outlook prompted her to make $51 million in reductions to the state's Workfirst program.
EXCERPT FROM: Mail Tribune
By Damian Mann
State budget cuts in day-care assistance mean families who recently received public aid from a federal program will continue to qualify for the help, while working families who have not will no longer be eligible. For some, that will mean they'll have to quit their jobs to stay home with the kids.
EXCERPT FROM: News 8
By STAFF
WASHINGTON (WAVY) - The Defense Department announced Friday it is adjusting its child care fees, adding categories for its highest income earners, to compensate for six years without fee range increases.
EXCERPT FROM: The Post and Courier
By Yvonne Wenger
COLUMBIA -- Five months and 100-plus job applications after Tamara Townsend's boss laid her off from her full-time job with a steady paycheck, the 30-year-old single mother finally found work in May. But this job is commission-only selling alarm systems.
EXCERPT FROM: Pacific Daily News
By Laura Matthews
A program that provides assistance to some families for child-care services will be suspending new applications.
EXCERPT FROM: Quincy Herald-Whig
By Edward Husar
Officials with agencies that get subsidies from the city of Quincy say the money is vital to their operations, and the agencies would be hurt or threatened if the money was taken away.
EXCERPT FROM: The Buffalo News
By Harold McNeil
Sherine Weaver of Buffalo fought to keep her composure as she pleaded with county officials Wednesday not to cut off her child care subsidy for her two children.
EXCERPT FROM: NewsChannel 9 WSYR
Syracuse (WSYR-TV) - It's only January, but Madison County’s child care subsidy for 2010 has already dried up. Parents and children are now on a waiting list for assistance.
EXCERPT FROM: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By Raquel Rutledge
State auditors identified a string of regulatory gaps in Wisconsin's child-care program, including more than 600 sites with overdue inspections and at least 200 criminal background checks that hadn't been done.
EXCERPT FROM: The Honolulu Advertiser
By Suzanne Roig
The state will delay, by one month, a change in the child care subsidy scale to give providers and families time to work out solutions and apply for federal grants.