Please address day care funding on an emergency basis. It is unfair that the cost of our years of fiscal irresponsibility should be heaped upon the most helpless members of our society. The burdens of reshaping our fiscal future need to be shared by both the taxpayers and the government recipients, workers and beneficiaries, in an arduous struggle over competing interests and needs. The kids cannot wait for that to take place; fund them now and get on with the rest.
Why is this important?
I am asking your help to get the day care subsidies for poor families reinstated. These are federal funds that Illinois got and diverted to other uses. I am a director at the not-for-profit West Austin Development Center where 200 needy kids are about to be sent home, the teachers are working without the promise of pay and the last of the reserves are being used to pay the rent and keep the heat on. If we don't get funded by February 20, we have to close the doors.
