State cuts to child care force some parents, especially single moms, to consider quitting work

[serendipity_15]

OXNARD, Calif. - Sarah Comito rolls out of bed before dawn most days and slips quietly out of her house. Before her rambunctious toddler wakes up, she heads off to work as a waitress in an upscale weight-loss resort in Malibu.

The hour-long commute is exhausting, but the 33-year-old is thankful to make the trip when she remembers where she and her

Comments

[atomic_joe2]

But the state should be there for the vulnerable in this way so surely the last thing you want to cut would be this kind of thing where you're penalising the incoming generation?

No doubt I'm a 'Communist' for thinking this!

[archanglrobriel]

Exactly this. The struggling working poor don't have lobbiests and can't take politicians out for big five star dinners to plead their case. They don't contribute to re-election campaign funds either, so who cares what they think about anything? The 1% could do without new jet skis or that extra week's vacation in the Hamptons, or any of the extravagant luxuries that make their lives better, OR we could help someone else to just frickin' LIVE at all. Gosh, it seems so very OBVIOUS on the surface of it - and yet, here we are. Trash the poor and let the rich do as they will seems to be the order of the day. I wonder how long it'll be before we see what the Greeks have seen - desperate people bringing their starving children in to surrender them to the state foster care system because they can't care for them anymore. I don't understand any of this - my country makes NO SENSE anymore.

[littlelauren86]

Oops, I guess marriage doesn't solve all your problems then?

[maladaptive]

Funny how cuts take away jobs instead of create them.

[apis_cerana]

I don't understand how anyone can justify this as being OK.

[kalikahuntress]

I wonder how long the resistant part of the top 1% including and those that protect their interests think that ensuring they remain the top 1% while everyone else suffers can persist? All these repub candidates are about blaming the poor when stats and stories like these prove the wealth needs to be spread around, not hoarded by the very privileged few who quite frankly are dependent on the people they are oppressing.
If they think they can keep on pressuring and attacking vulnerable groups like single parents and hope that the country won't fall a part and take them with it, they are beyond fucking delusional.