Just one week into President Trump's administration, Head Start programs in Wisconsin suddenly couldn't access their grant funding. It forced one Head Start in Waukesha, Wisconsin, to temporarily close, leaving 250 families without care. Over the last four months, HHS has provided roughly a billion dollars less to Head Start programs across the country than during the same period last year. The delays in funding have exacerbated uncertainty for programs needing to make payroll. And in some instances, like the one I cited in Waukesha, programs have had to shut their doors until the payments came through. (04:16–04:28)
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Asserts that HHS funding for Head Start programs decreased by about a billion dollars compared to the previous year.
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