Whacking #HeadStart and #JobCorps isn't blind slashing. Like the NIH and NSF indirect cost caps and the broader attack on higher ed, the goal is to end economic upward mobility. #Project2025 in action. Screwing poor people, especially poor non-white, non-straight, non-male, and non-cis people.
The Fash want people like me to own and run everything. Or, well, maybe not exactly like me...
#Headstart
This is why billionaires do NOT belong in any #government. These #psychopaths will deny the #underprivileged any and all #avenues to #advance in life. #Criminal #felon #POTUS and the rest of the #corrupt #administration belong in #prison.
#USPolitics #HeadStart #opposeGOP #TraitorGOP #TraitorMAGA #impeach #education #discrimination #children
https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/05/19/the-real-world-costs-of-eliminating-head-start/
This is the definition of "penny wise & pound foolish".
Same with #defunding #Headstart. Same for #lead detection and removal.
The #GOP will have even more blood on their hands before this is over.
Chalk one up for the 4-year-olds.
Thanks to a relentless onslaught of pleading, cajoling, lobbying and public pressure, Head Start appears to have dodged the federal budget axe — for the time being.
Last month, Donald Trump’s early budget draft called for the elimination of #HeadStart -- the free early-childhood program for low-income families.
#Project2025, the Heritage Foundation’s conservative policy roadmap, also called for the program’s demise, saying it has “little or no academic value.”
That triggered an all-hands-on-deck response from Head Start staff, families and alumni -- who touted the program’s success in propelling families out of poverty.
The National Head Start Association said advocates sent more than 300,000 letters to Congress,
added more than 50,000 signatures to petitions and attended rallies throughout the country.
Meanwhile, Head Start advocates took to social media and national TV to plead their case
and visited Republican members of Congress to convince them of the program’s value.
They reached out directly to the White House.
In their free time, advocates said they lobbied everyone from neighbors to hairdressers to gardeners — anyone who had even a remote interest in the program.
It appears to have worked:
The latest draft of Trump’s budget proposal, released last week, doesn’t call for any changes to the $12.27 billion program.
Still, advocates worry that new cuts may lie ahead.
“We mobilized absolutely everyone,” said Melanee Cottrill, executive director of Head Start in California.
“We launched a very intensive campaign. We still have a lot of concerns, but right now there’s a sigh of relief.”
https://calmatters.org/education/2025/05/head-start-california/
The Real-World Costs of Eliminating Head Start https://otherwords.org/the-real-world-costs-of-eliminating-head-start/
The program was founded as part of the War on Poverty and has made life better for countless children and expecting parents from low-income families suffering from poverty and discrimination.
The suit argues the cutbacks already enacted have jeopardized a range of congressionally mandated programs, including #MentalHealth & #addiction services, #HeadStart — the federal program that funds early childhood #education for #poor students — #Medicaid & assistance for #LowIncome households in paying heating & cooling bills.
CommUnify’s Head Start and Early Head Start programs have served 55,000+ children and families since our first campus opened in 1967,
and currently we operate 20 campuses, serving close to 600 children and their families annually.
But the new administration’s proposed federal budget would completely eliminate Head Start and Early Head Start.
The premise of Head Start is simple:
every child, regardless of circumstance at birth, has the ability to reach their full potential.
Eradicating Head Start and Early Head Start will have an impact on our local workforce:
without these programs many of the parents of these children will not be able to go to work because they will not have safe and affordable childcare.
Now is the time to stand up and make our voices heard.
#SantaBarbara #HeadStart
https://www.communifysb.org/save-head-start
Education and child advocacy leaders are warning that a proposal to eliminate federal funding for Head Start could devastate Texas families, erasing decades of progress in early childhood education and worsening an ongoing child care crisis.
#Education #EducationNews #FortBend #HarrisCounty #Healthcare #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Texas #ChildCare #ChildCareCrisis #ChildrenAtRisk #FederalFundingCuts #HeadStart #NationalHeadStartAssociation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-wwfD0qoSg
#DemocracyNow 25 April 2025
Trump's #WarOnChildren : #DOGE Guts #HeadStart, ChildAbuse Programs, Healthcare and More
But hey, let's make family planning and abortions illegal so we can STARVE more children!!! smh
Trump's #WarOnChildren: #DOGE Guts #HeadStart, #ChildAbuse Programs, #Healthcare & More
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/24/war_on_children
#TrumpHatesChildren #ProBirth #NoTaxBreaksForBillionaires #WarOnThePoor #BadDOGE #USPol #FundSchoolsNotSpaceX
From Los Angeles Times: With Head Start in jeopardy, Trump administration threatens child care for 800,000 kids
Here’s why Trump’s plan to gut Head Start will hurt you, even if you don’t have kids
There is no American family or business that would be untouched by the ripple effects of abruptly gutting childcare for more than 700,000 families.
#HeadStart
www.fastcompany.com/91320429/how...
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Rep. Jaime Raskin: "Trump’s war on higher education and public schools has expanded to an exciting new front: pre-K! Elon Musk and DOGE are shutting down a preschool near you. The richest government contractor in the world will stop those 3-year olds from defrauding our people":
https://apnews.com/article/head-start-funding-preschool-child-care-closures-1f92fa98f320c7c14db63e69b986d11d #HeadStart #politics
URGENT ACTION: Details for Trump's Presidential Budget were leaked, including his plans to disastrously eliminate Head Start and endanger #childcare access for families. Tell Congress we want Trump’s #HANDSOFF #HeadStart. action.momsrising.org/sign/Head_St...
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😱 Трамп планує скасувати фінансування Head Start! Що це означає для майбутнього наших дітей? 🤔 Адміністрація розглядає можливість припинення фінансування цієї важливої програми догляду за дітьми раннього віку. Захисники програми б'ють на сполох, прогнозуючи катастрофічні наслідки. Дізнайтеся більше про те, як це може вплинути на найменших! 📚
#HeadStart #Трамп #Діти #Освіта #СоціальнаПолітика #МайбутнєПокоління #США
Детальніше: https://newsua.us/politics/tramp-planuye-skasuvaty-finansuvannya-head-start-shcho-tse-oznachaye-dlya-ditey
Budget cuts on the horizon could change everything! A leaked draft reveals the Trump administration plans to slash HHS spending by a third, threatening crucial services like the Head Start program for low-income kids. The document outlines not just cuts but sweeping changes in health agencies. Skeptics question Congressional support for these drastic moves that threaten vital programs. Read more about this potential crisis: [Read more](https://crooksandliars.com/2025/04/trump-admin-next-budget-cuts-take-aim-head) #BudgetCuts #HeadStart #HHS #HealthPolicy
Head Start funding lags by nearly $1 billion this year, causing some preschool closures.
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