To the editor: Californians gained’t enable political video games to jeopardize the care of our youngsters. I commend the lawyer normal for submitting this lawsuit to forestall any additional hurt (“California sues Trump administration over ‘baseless and merciless’ freezing of child-care funds,” Jan. 8).
A blanket funding freeze for blue states doesn’t punish one political social gathering — it punishes the tens of millions of actual youngsters, households and child-care suppliers who pays the value. In line with an evaluation by the Financial Coverage Institute, youngster care already takes up about one-fifth of a median household’s revenue in California. With our state’s excessive price of residing, do we actually count on them to shoulder any extra sudden prices with out dire penalties?
There are current mechanisms for accountability for public funds, and child-care suppliers are already burdened with excessive operational prices. This freeze will deprive youngsters of care throughout their most necessary years of improvement, eroding the inspiration for his or her success.
If our nation’s leaders actually cared for working households and their youngsters, they’d make issues simpler for them, not withhold important funding.
Stacy Lee, Los Angeles
This author is chief studying officer and senior managing director, early childhood, at youngsters’s advocacy group Kids Now.
