Child Care Subsidies – Massachusetts

Budget cuts making it harder for low-income women to get subsidized child care, Mass. Budget and Policy Center says, By Jim Kinney, January 12, 2010, Springfield Republican: “Cuts in state funding are making it harder for low-income women to get their children into state-subsidized child care, according to a new report issued Tuesday by the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center. At the same time, women are also losing their child-care subsidy as they have their hours cut back at work, said Kathleen A. Treglia, vice president of the YMCA of Greater Springfield and executive director of its community services branch. ‘You have to cut somewhere,’ she said. ‘It’s a lot of little things that are adding up, that’s why you are not hearing a huge public outcry…'”