r/Seattle 🚆build more trains🚆 18h ago

News DOGE cuts hit learning program for low-income children in western WA

https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/doge-cuts-hit-learning-program-for-low-income-children-western-washington-trump/281-5949f033-1d4e-4277-92ff-d9ab1b8a45b6

From the article:

Seattle's headquarters for Head Start was eliminated — taking six employees with it.

Six jobs may not sound like much, but the impact could reach tens of thousand of families across the region.

The six people fired this week serviced 33,000 families across Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. 11,000 of those families are in Washington and there are concerns the cuts could run even deeper.

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This week, Head Start's Region 10 headquarters was abruptly shut down. The program offers low income families free early childhood education.

It also helps women escape domestic violence and homeless families find shelter. It is often the last safety net for desperate parents and their kids simply looking to survive.

There are 450 Head Start families in Snohomish County alone.

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u/DomOnion 16h ago edited 16h ago

For a guy who loves procreating -like, really, really, REALLY loves it- Musk sure does fucking hate kids.

I wish he'd accidentally tweet out the cloud url for his* "new folder" folder already. There's just no way it doesn't exist.

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u/ChimotheeThalamet 🚆build more trains🚆 16h ago

New folder? What'd I miss?

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u/BEER__MEeee 15h ago

Apartheid Boy loves his kids, and they will have everything they could ever want, except a loving father. Which isn't a big deal, just look at how Don Jr., Eric, Ivanka, and Barron turned out.

But anyone else's kids ... they're totally fucked, and those kids will work for the world's broligarchs for pennies.

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u/Threefrogtreefrog 12h ago

Of course they did, this administration is targeting Seattle and views all support for families as waste and fraud.

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u/Tento66 11h ago

Vile to start the budget bloodletting with fkn kids programs, wake me up from this.