Child Care Subsidies – Washington

Washington welfare cuts get reprieve, By Jordan Schrader, January 29, 2011, Tacoma News Tribune: “Turea Ducharme has been on welfare before. She has no interest in going back. The South Tacoma single mom said she worked hard to move herself and her two children off of a government check and onto a paycheck. She became first a teller, now an assistant manager, at a Moneytree payday-lending office. Finding work left Ducharme in need of another form of public assistance: Day care subsidies that helped pay for someone to watch Niya, 4, and Devon, 10, while she worked. But state budget cuts have yanked that help away, and she worries about ending up back on the welfare rolls. ‘I’ll lose my job if I get to the point where I don’t have anyone to watch my kids,’ Ducharme worries. Thousands more parents could be placed in that situation in the next two-year budget period as further cuts to welfare programs loom, including the $725 million Working Connections Child Care program…”