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Missouri Children Need Safe Child Care!

Missouri Children Need Safe Child Care!

296 signatures 204 to reach 500
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Started by Anonymous 16 years, 3 months ago
Over 300,000 Missouri children under age 6 have working parents. This means that many are likely in the care of someone other than a parent every day, every week. Parents want their children to be safe in child care. The budget passed by the Missouri House cuts $7.4 million in child care funding. This will make it more difficult for hard working Missouri families with young children to find safe child care. Already Missouri ranks near the bottom of all states with regard to standards and oversight for child care settings. We cannot afford to cut child care funding, which will leave our most vulnerable population, our state's youngest children, to chance. In fact, given accidents and deaths in child care, we need more investments in Missouri child care safety, not less! We urge the Senate to reject the House budget cuts and restore child care funding TODAY! Missouri children need safe child care --working families depend on it.

Updates

April 9, 2010

We just hit 250 signatures and the suits in the Missouri House need to see that this anger is real. They are gambling with the safety of our children to balance their budget and we are not going to let them get away with it.

April 7, 2010

One hundred people have signed and the Missouri House still thinks they can slash funding for our children without a fight. This is just the beginning of the noise we are going to make until they fix this reckless budget.

Reached 250 supporters

April 7, 2010

April 6, 2010

The momentum behind this fight is undeniable. The Missouri House politicians clearly underestimated how many of us refuse to let them endanger our children for the sake of their budget games.

Reached 100 supporters

April 5, 2010

6 Comments

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Mike Wade
16 years ago Featured

7 million dollar cut is insane. these people need to realize that working moms and dads cant just quit their jobs to watch their kids.

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Brenda Saunders
16 years ago Featured

I work in childcare and we are already struggling to keep up with basic safety standards. this will make everything way worse.

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Sarah Wang
16 years ago Featured

My kids have been in daycare and its scary enough finding a good place without the state pulling funding. Do better for our kids.

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Linda Townsend
16 years ago Featured

This is so wrong. children deserve to be safe while their parents work. our state is already failing them.

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David Stokes
16 years ago Featured

the house needs to wake up. you dont cut corners on child safety. my family relies on help and we need it now more than ever.

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Jason Wade
16 years ago Featured

FIX THE BUDGET. stop playing games with our kids lives.

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