For Immediate Release
January 28, 2025
OAKLAND – In response to the Trump administration’s decision to pause federal grants, loans, and other financial assistance, a child care advocate, Mary Ignatius of Parent Voices, released the following statement:
“With wages so low, and the price of basic necessities like food, health care, and rent, so high, working families depend on federal programs like child care, Head Start, SNAP, and TANF to make ends meet.
“There is a very fragile and thin line between keeping a roof over one’s head and homelessness. It is abhorrent that there is any discussion to freeze, and essentially cut, life-saving relief while boasting extending tax cuts for the 1% who don’t need it. This will cost taxpayers $400 Billion per year, and increase poverty at unprecedented rates. The administration is limiting life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to only the richest in this nation. It’s shameful.”
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