Trump’s Next Target: Poverty-Stricken Kids
“As the Trump administration has hacked away at the Department of Health and Human Services these past few weeks, most of the attention has focused on the cuts applied to high-profile agencies like the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But HHS is huge, containing multitudes of other agencies, offices, and programs, both obscure and well known. Among these are two big child-care programs for low-income families: Head Start, which pays specially licensed centers to provide free, enriched care for toddlers and infants; and the Child Care and Development Fund, which gives states money they can use to provide discounted care for kids up to age 13.
The HHS layoffs have hit the offices managing these programs too. And the consequences look a lot like what we’re seeing elsewhere in HHS and across the rest of the federal government: organizational chaos, interruptions of service, and the prospect of significant program failures in the future.”
Read more at The Bulwark.