"This month, preschoolers will become the latest group of Americans to feel the strain of the sequester, the automatic $1 trillion in budget cuts that were allowed to go into effect early this year.
"The National Head Start Association, which provides educational and social services to over 1 million children in low-income families nationwide, lost about $400 million of its $8 billion budget to the sequester. As a result, 51,299 fewer preschool-aged children will be able to access Head Start programs this year, and 5,966 toddlers will be denied the Head Start-sponsored childcare they had previously received...."
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