President Donald Trump said just last month in a speech before Congress that he’d like to work toward affordable and accessible child care. Yet on Thursday, the Trump administration sent Congress a proposed budget that cuts funding for public school programs that offer working parents, particularly low-income families, access to affordable child care. As part of a $9 billion cut to the Department of Education, Trump’s budget would eliminate funding for 21st Century Community Learning Centers. In short, the centers offer children in grade school and middle school a safe and secure place to go after school. “[Trump’s] proposal would devastate working families,” Jodi Grant, executive director of Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group, said in a statement Thursday.

Source: Huffington Post March 16, 2017 22:30 UTC