Memory Hole: Massachusetts' State Budget
Just wanted you to see where your increased taxes are going.
"Day-care center for homeless may be forced to shut doors; Cambridge program facing budget gap" by June Q. Wu, Globe Correspondent | July 24, 2010
CAMBRIDGE — One of two day-care centers in Massachusetts exclusively serving homeless children age 5 and under, the Salvation Army’s Our Place has appealed the state’s decision and is waiting to hear whether the center will receive funding, program director Darlene Kopesky said....
Why are ANY CHILDREN HOMELESS in AmeriKa when we spend TRILLIONS on BANKS and WARS!?
If Our Place is forced to close in September because it does not receive the $160,000 it received from the state last year, Kopesky worries that the homeless parents who bring their children to the center will no longer be able to finish school or look for jobs during the day....
Related:
"Legislators also agreed last week to change legal language in the recently passed sales tax hike to assure credit agencies that $100 million earmarked for the Turnpike Authority would go toward paying off Big Dig debt"
Yeah, BANKS are WAY MORE IMPORTANT than HOMELESS KIDS to the "public servants!"
What could YOU DO with $100 MILLION, 'eh, homeless person?
Related: Things Are Tough All Over in Massachusetts
Yup, MORE OF YOU EVERY DAY!
Their parents, in most cases single working mothers in their 20s, pick them up in the late afternoon....
Where is your lobby, ladies?
