{"id":37333,"date":"2013-08-19T09:40:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T16:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=37333"},"modified":"2013-08-19T09:40:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T16:40:19","slug":"cbs-more-than-57000-kids-cut-from-head-start-because-of-sequester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/08\/19\/cbs-more-than-57000-kids-cut-from-head-start-because-of-sequester\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS: More than 57,000 kids cut from Head Start because of sequester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 57,000 children this fall will be cut from Head Start, the program for pre-school age children from low-income families, because of the ongoing &#8220;sequestration&#8221; budget cuts, the Obama administration announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Head Start and Early Head Start saw a 5.27 percent reduction in its $8 billion budget after Congress this March enacted the sequester &#8212; $1.2 trillion in across-the-board cuts to federal spending over 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Administered by the Health and Human Services Department, Head Start awards grants to public and private institutions on a competitive basis to provide pre-school services in their communities. The program serves more than one million children every year in every U.S. state and territory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-250_162-57599142\/more-than-57000-kids-cut-from-head-start-because-of-sequester\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nClick here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 57,000 children this fall will be cut from Head Start, the program for pre-school age children from low-income families, because of the ongoing &#8220;sequestration&#8221; budget cuts, the Obama administration announced Monday. Head Start and Early Head Start saw a 5.27 percent reduction in its $8 billion budget after Congress this March enacted the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37334,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37333\/revisions\/37334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}