Surviving in New York City on $28,000 a year — I’m sure you would agree — is not easy. Yet, difficult as it is, it sure beats being unemployed hands down.
That, in a few words, is the story of what more than 2,000 unionized childcare and Head Start workers, in imminent danger of losing their jobs, are currently facing.
The reason? Cutbacks of $170 million, which are part of Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed city budget for the new fiscal year beginning July 1.
Such cuts are “an assault on New York City’s children and working families,” said the Campaign for Children, an umbrella group of advocates and care providers. And without a doubt it would spell disaster not only for the men and women losing their $28,000-a-year jobs, but for 47,000 low income and working class children who would be pushed out of the city’s subsidized childcare and Head Start programs in the coming months.
That many of their parents — 36% according to a study by the Campaign for Children — will not be able to go to work without affordable childcare doesn’t seem to enter our billionaire mayor’s field of vision.
“What happens after the final school bell of the day rings is as important to students as what goes on in the classrooms,” Bloomberg recently said. Yet childcare and after-school programs seem to be one of his favorite budget-reducing targets.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bloomberg-budget-cuts-wound-low-paid-childcare-employees-working-families-kids-article-1.1086022#ixzz1wTcjc1Sv
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