Child Care Cuts Threaten Working Families

We already know that food, housing and health care costs have been skyrocketing, making it harder for working families to keep up.

But instead of taking steps to fix the affordability crisis, the White House launched another assault on working parents.

By withholding over $10 billion that was supposed to help families afford child care, the Trump administration is depriving parents and child care providers – many of them AFSCME members  –  of the resources they need to make ends meet.

Read AFSCME President Lee Saunders' column on this latest threat to the working class.

“AFSCME members must continue to organize, to talk to our co-workers about what’s at stake, to call Congress and share with them the devastating impact of deep cuts in child care funding and call on them to invest even more,” Saunders wrote. “And we will use our political power, too — in this year’s elections, we will remember which politicians stood with children and families and which ones betrayed them.”

Quality, affordable child care is absolutely critical to working families across the country. The voices of AFSCME members will be loud and clear as we demand the funding and resources working families need to thrive.