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This is an email I received from the MomsRising mailing list. Click on the link to take action and tell Congress not to cut childcare funding!
Dear MomsRising Member,
What would you do if you learned that your childcare was gone? I’d be out of two part-time jobs, burning through savings, and drowning my panic in a pint of ice cream.
Thousands of moms could face this scary dilemma if the proposed 2009 federal budget goes through which includes huge cuts to childcare funding. We recently shared the news with you about the terrible funding cuts proposed for afterschool programs–and you responded. We reached our goal last week of emailing over 40,000 letters to Congress for the 40,000 kindergartners home alone each day after school, and the word is out on Capitol Hill that moms are paying attention.
Now your power and voice is needed again to help save childcare which is also on the chopping block. The proposed freezes and cuts to funding for kids’ programs would mean that 200,000 children and families will lose their childcare. 14,000 children will lose access to Head Start, a crucial early education program.
CONTACT CONGRESS NOW: http://www.momsrising.org/save_childcare
After you take action, please take a moment to forward this email far and wide so others can take action too. When lots of us take action at the same time, we’re a powerful force. Here’s what Jodi Grant, Executive Director of the Afterschool Alliance has to say about the impact of our afterschool funding cuts emails last week, “You folks are really amazing! We have been hearing from lots of Hill offices that they are receiving calls and emails so MomsRising is making a really big difference.”
To fight these proposed childcare funding cuts, MomsRising is partnering with the National Women’s Law Center, the Early Care and Education Consortium, Voices forAmerica’s Children, the YWCA, and many more, to “March Forth on March 4th” for childcare and Head Start.
Why are so many organizations working on this together? Frankly, quality childcare is out of reach for many American families without these programs. One quarter of families with kids under age 6 earned less than $25,000 in 2001. But childcare costs can range from $4,000 to $10,000 per year per child. Please send a note through the link in this email to your Congressperson letting them know – we need child care and Head Start programs for our children to grow and thrive.
If after hearing about the proposed afterschool cuts last week, you think you’re beginning to see a pattern of cutting kids programs, then you’re right. For all the rhetoric, kids and families just aren’t a priority for politicians? yet. They need to hear our voices to make these important issues a priority.
Join us by telling your Representative that moms need these programs, support increasing funding for childcare, and certainly don’t want to see funding cuts:
http://www.momsrising.org/save_childcare
Please forward this email to your friends, colleagues, and local moms so they can join with us in letting Congress know that cutting kids’ programs won’t fly with moms. Together, we’re impossible to ignore.
Thanks so much — Anita, Kristin, Joan, Katie, and the MomsRising Team
That’s me: Christina Gleason. I’m a writer, editor, and disability advocate. I'm a multiply disabled autistic lady doing my best in this world built for abled people. I’m a geek for grammar, fantasy, and casual gaming. I hate vegetables. I cannot reliably speak, so I’ll happily conduct business over email or messaging instead.
