Newt Gingrich: poor kids should work!

Salon published a great piece on Friday covering the most shocking policy ideas proposed throughout the years by Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich. In addition to the fact that Gingrich allegedly tried to divorce his first wife while she was recovering from cancer surgery and cheated on his second wife after she was diagnosed with MS, what do you know about this flip-flopping “family man?”

Here’s where the right-wing candidate stands or has stood on issues that will affect you and your children. (Hint: if you live in public housing, get ready to send your kids to work!) Continue reading »

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Jamie Smith and her daughter, Wren.

Your life can turn upside down in an instant.  I was once the proud wife of a PhD, living the American Dream as I pursued my career in entertainment and raised my beautiful daughter in the heart of Manhattan.  After my divorce, I suddenly found myself technically homeless and without income as I scrambled to pick up the pieces and define my new life.  I moved in with my mother, and that allows my daughter to attend Head Start, a pre-school program for low-income New Yorkers.  There, she’s learned to read and write the alphabet, her name and many other words.  Head Start allows me to write, too – providing me with a few hours of childcare a day that I couldn’t otherwise afford.  But what happens to single mothers who, facing subsidized childcare cuts by their state governments, are no longer able to afford employment?  They begrudgingly turn to welfare to get by, because it makes more financial sense to take a government handout than it does to work. Continue reading »

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Ohio Cutting Funds to Help Foster In the latest sad story of state budgets getting desperate, Ohio is planning cuts that will directly and negatively impact the well being of foster and adoptive families across the state.

After last year’s raise from the $250 per month to $300 a month–a raise twenty years coming–the stipend for families adopting foster children will be cut to $215 per month.

This is just one example of the negative repercussions Continue reading »

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If you’re a working parent jealous of the stay-at-home set, cover your ears. Out-of-work parents in Los Angeles may actually get paid to watch their own kids!

With the state’s finances an utter disaster (sorry, it’s true,) LA is discussing a plan that would provide childcare payments to thousands of parents currently on welfare. In other words? Continue reading »

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