{"id":10910,"date":"2013-08-20T03:09:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T10:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10910"},"modified":"2013-08-20T03:09:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T10:09:18","slug":"the-republican-war-on-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/20\/the-republican-war-on-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republican War on Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fill in the blank: the Republican War on _______.  If you picked anything that is neither perverse nor hateful, there\u2019s a Republican War on It.  Therefore it should come as no surprise that there\u2019s a Republican War on Kids, demonstrated by their refusal to compromise on the Republican Sequester, demanding exceptions to fund welfare for the rich and military contractors, while insisting that thousands of kids be thrown out of Head Start.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"20WarOnKids\"Head Start programs will eliminate services for 57,265 children<\/a> in the coming school year thanks to sequestration\u2019s automatic, across-the-board spending cuts, according to new government data collected from individual programs. California, Texas, and New York will cut the largest number of spots, at 5,611, 4,410, and 3,847, respectively. Nineteen states and Puerto Rico will cut off services to more than 1,000 children.<\/p>\n

The cuts also mean the reduction of 1.3 million calendar days at centers across the country. About 18,000 hours will be cut by centers that are dealing with reduced funding by starting days later or ending earlier. Some programs are also eliminating bus services, and children whose parents don\u2019t have reliable transportation may not be able to attend.<\/p>\n

The cuts will also impact Head Start staff. More than 18,000 employees will experience lay offs or reduced pay.<\/p>\n

Children have already been kicked out<\/a> of the preschool program thanks to sequestration, according to reports across the country. The new data confirms that more children will experience the same fate.<\/p>\n

Preschool programs aren\u2019t just about keeping kids busy, but have big benefits in the long run<\/strong>. Children who attend stand to see $11 in economic benefits<\/a> over their lifetimes for every dollar spent thanks to effects such as a higher likelihood of staying in school, going to college, and avoiding teen pregnancy and crime<\/strong>. The economy in general also benefits, seeing $7 in savings<\/a> for every dollar spent and an increase in human capital and economic output<\/a>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

The Republican claim that this is about deficit spending is a lie.  They\u2019re perfectly happy to spend up the ying-yang on welfare for billionaires!  If they were serious ,they would not be cutting $422 million in a way that statistically guarantees future expenditures of $2.95 billion covering drug rehab, incarceration, etc. for some of the kids Republicans are now pushing out the door.<\/font><\/p>\n

Most of you know, I do volunteer work in prison.  I\u2019m too old to experience this, but someone will step forward to take my place, when I am no longer here.  That person will help prisoners that Republicans kicked out of Head Start.  My replacement will be happy to help, but wouldn\u2019t it be far better to spend far less to prevent them going to prison?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fill in the blank: the Republican War on _______.  If you picked anything that is neither perverse nor hateful, there\u2019s a Republican War on It.  Therefore it should come as no surprise that there\u2019s a Republican War on Kids, demonstrated by their refusal to compromise on the Republican Sequester, demanding exceptions to fund welfare for […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}