Mama's Alert: Budget Ax Could Swing at Child Care | Womens eNews

Mama's Alert: Budget Ax Could Swing at Child Care | Womens eNews

Mama's Alert: Budget Ax Could Swing at Child Care

by Allison Stevens

(WOMENSENEWS)--President Barack Obama emphasized in his State of the Union address on Tuesday that the fiscal belt is tightening, the budget ax is coming, the government is shrinking.

So mamas, watch out. The child care programs that many of us rely on to make ends meet and to help launch the next generation are at risk.

It's preposterous, really, that we have to worry about this when what the country needs is far more, and far better--not less--child care, especially if we want the kind of competitive, innovative society Obama called for in his State of the Union address.

And don't tell me we can't get this done, even in a time of fiscal austerity