Impact of Sequestration

07/23/2013

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.
Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Automatic, across-the-board cuts on Head Start, child care, and early education required by the Budget Control Act of 2011 will total about $1.2 trillion over nine years beginning in 2013, observes the National Women's Law Center in their report, "Impact of Sequestration Cuts on Head Start, Child Care and Early Education." Here are some examples from the report of the resulting cuts:

Alabama: About $3 million in sequestration cuts threaten the child care assistance of approximately 1,000 families in the state.

South Carolina: The Cincinnati - Hamilton County Community Action Agency will lose $1 million in Head Start funding. As a result, 200 children will be cut from the program and 20 teachers will lose their jobs.

Indiana: Approximately 1,100 children in the state will not receive Head Start and Early Head Start services as a result of the cuts.

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