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2016 Postmortem

HassleCat

(6,409 posts) Wed Feb 10, 2016, 10:58 PM Feb 2016

What about Head Start?

Where do our candidates stand on full funding for Head Start, the pre-school program aimed at giving disadvantaged kids a chance to compete with all those Montessori toddlers? "Full funding" means giving the program enough money to allow it to accept all applicants.

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What about Head Start? (Original Post) HassleCat Feb 2016 OP

Isn't that run by the states? yeoman6987 Feb 2016 #1

I think it is funded by the feds. jwirr Feb 2016 #2

Thank you. I was not sure. I am now. yeoman6987 Feb 2016 #3

Sanders co-sponsored fully fund Head Start; Job Corps; and WIC food program beam me up scottie Feb 2016 #4

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)

1. Isn't that run by the states?

Reply to HassleCat (Original post)

Wed Feb 10, 2016, 11:03 PM

Feb 2016

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

2. I think it is funded by the feds.

Reply to yeoman6987 (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 10, 2016, 11:05 PM

Feb 2016

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)

3. Thank you. I was not sure. I am now.

Reply to jwirr (Reply #2)

Wed Feb 10, 2016, 11:07 PM

Feb 2016

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)

4. Sanders co-sponsored fully fund Head Start; Job Corps; and WIC food program

Reply to HassleCat (Original post)

Wed Feb 10, 2016, 11:08 PM

Feb 2016

Fully fund Head Start; Job Corps; and WIC food program.

Sanders co-sponsored fully fund Head Start; Job Corps; and WIC food program

Making appropriations to begin a phase-in toward full funding of the special supplemental food program for women, infants and children (WIC) and of Head Start programs, and to expand the Job Corps program for the year ending September 30, 1994.

Source: H.R.1722 1993-H1722 on Apr 20, 1993

http://www.ontheissues.org/Economic/Bernie_Sanders_Welfare_+_Poverty.htm

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