Thursday, February 17, 2011

House GOP Proposal = Fewer kids in Head Start, Less Help for Students to Attend College, Less Job Training, and Less Funding for Clean Water

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

House GOP Proposal Means Fewer Children in Head Start, Less Help for Students to Attend College, Less Job Training, and Less Funding for Clean Water

By James R. Horney,  Danilo Trisi and Arloc Sherman*

"Some 157,000 at-risk children up to age 5 could lose education, health, nutrition, and other services under Head Start, while funds for Pell Grants that help students go to college would fall by nearly 25 percent, under a Republican proposal on the House floor to cut current-year (2011) non-security discretionary funding by 13.8 percent…. 

"Where possible, the paper examines the effects on program beneficiaries.  In some cases, such as Pell Grants, the paper provides the state-by-state effects of proposed cuts."

View the full report:
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3405
http://www.cbpp.org/files/2-17-11bud.pdf 30pp.

View the state-by-state data:
http://www.cbpp.org/files/2-17-11bud-tables.pdf 19pp.
http://www.cbpp.org/files/2-17-11bud-tables.xls

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