One parent in that category, Kathy Gebo, works six days a week as a deli manager in Starksboro, Vt. The ones who are getting hurt and neglected are the children. Now 84,000 new children are not going to get help, including 13,000 babies. Another 2,500 children now being served will be cut off. State funding Of course, not all decisions affecting subsidies for child care are made in Washington.
States also have a role in setting levels of funding.
In Vermont, Kathi Apgar, executive director of the Bristol Family Center, says Gov. Howard Dean recommended a 10 percent increase in child-care subsidy rates. But legislators in the House cut it back to 6.5 percent. More than half of the children enrolled at Bristol Family Center receive subsidies from the state child-care services division. Some of that money comes from federal child-care block grants. I don't think many folks would protest.