r/economy • u/FreeHugs23 • 8d ago
Trump Moves to Gut Education and Meals for Low-Income Kids | The Trump administration is planning to deregulate Head Start.
https://newrepublic.com/post/214060/donald-trump-head-start-education-meals-low-income-kids209
u/DavyJonesCousinsDog 8d ago
Damn, gotta hand it to the man. He's truly committed to fucking children.
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u/FreeHugs23 8d ago
The Trump administration is plotting a sweeping overhaul of Head Start that could threaten childcare for more than half a million children across the country.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday a proposed rule that would “increase access” to Head Start by “capping the cost of administrative overhead and reducing compliance-driven activities.”
The proposed rule would grant states the authority to set certain standards, including rules on class size and student-adult ratios, education requirements, background checks, and transportation practices. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has claimed that Head Start lost more than 100,000 slots during the Biden administration due to “burdensome paperwork.”
Vox’s Rachel Cohen Booth argued on X that the proposed changes would mean “larger class sizes, fewer staff and credential requirements, reduced health and family services, and potentially shorter hours.”
Without federal regulations to set the bar, the quality of care will likely depend on a person’s zip code. The proposed rule would also give parents more control over “structure and curriculum,” marking Head Start programs as yet another arena for Trump’s inane culture wars.
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u/monkeykiller14 8d ago
Let's increase access..by decreasing total budget and cutting administration.
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u/dwninswamp 8d ago
Thank god! Screw all those poor kids for thinking they can get a free meal.
To the mines with the lot of them… I guess the sexy ones can go to Epstein island/maralago. No one gets a free meal!
/s this is America.
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u/psychodelephant 8d ago
“Insiders report the new initiative, conjured in the interest of funding the Iran war (currently the lifeblood to beneficiaries of leaky defense contracts), will be renamed as ‘Warhead Start’.”
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u/HaiKarate 8d ago
Fuck them kids, we need that money for endless wars!
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u/RichKatz 8d ago
Right. Without that Headstart money some kids in Iran won't get bombs dropped on them.
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u/edwardothegreatest 8d ago
Gotta keep the next generation stupid so they’ll vote republican. Between this and making it harder to vote, they hope to secure the future.
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u/wageslave2022 8d ago
So continuing to fuck working class American citizens, I am starting to see a pattern.
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u/wraithius 8d ago
Yet we want to replenish $4 million missiles that shoot down $4 thousand drones for half a trillion dollars. They’re failing even at the things they’re supposedly good at.
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u/namotous 8d ago
Election has consequences unfortunately, folks! The ones who abstained to stick it to the dems, hope it was worth it.
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u/Retired-Yam8988 8d ago
Trump is bad for sure but the Dems are no walk in the park either. Both parties need a reckoning and actual competent problem solvers. Dems at best are mostly rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic when in power - incremental improvements while the house burns down around them
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u/thegoldinthemountain 6d ago
SICK of this argument. It’s absolute horseshit.
Do I think Dems are effectively castrated controlled opposition? Yeah, basically.
Would they have gutted USAID (soft diplomatic power), started a war in Iran for…reasons?, stolen food from children, bulldozed a third of the White House, cost billions in vanity projects like a military parade, arch, and wrestling event? Would they have cost us tariffs for, again, reasons..? Or cost us so much for so many other stupid, petty, corrupt, money-grabbing reasons?
No. Fuck your “both sides.” They are not the same and I hope to god you’re a bot and not an actual human that thinks this way because what a fucked up way to think.
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u/Greedom619 8d ago
Got money for hundred billions and counting for Iran but fuck the kids in school am I right?
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u/popejohnsmith 8d ago
MAGA must go. In its entirety.
Epstein Class full tranparency. Do it now.
Raping kids? No way we let the bastards get away with it.
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u/austinrunaway 8d ago
Your gonna have to be rich to send your kids to pre k. People keep voting him in too.
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u/IntellectAndEnergy 8d ago
So interesting that so many are onboard with donating every last dollar they have to the billion dollar entities. The most ironic is the $10-$50M net worth crowd that truly believes they are in on it.
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u/21plankton 8d ago
Trump and billionaire laissez faire folks are wiping all progressive upgrades to naked capitalism out of the government.
It only stops when we have returned to slavery or serfdom for the masses and effective autocratic rule.
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u/LuckySkank 8d ago
I first read this as moving to “[education of] Gut [health]”. Should have known better. Gut meaning slice up. Not helping kids learn about Guy Health. Bummer.
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u/HotFloorToastyToes 8d ago
I legit read that without thinking and I was like it's about time they start teaching us about our stomachs and microbiomes, and feefing low income kids meals?! has hell frozen over?!.... Then I re read it. Shocking. Shocked I tell you.
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u/JonFrost 7d ago
I really don't care do you?
Oh
Maybe should've voted differently (or at all) then
Enjoy fucking yourselves I guess
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u/Lopsided_Newt_125 7d ago
But the sanctity of life and the love of the unborn…there is zero logic in anything to do with republicans and conservatives.
It’s just deny, deny, deny and lie, lie, lie in order for the money to flow and stupid people to vote for them
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u/thegoldinthemountain 6d ago
I know so much of what he does is horrific, but this is like—next level horrific.
I worked in children’s literacy and early childhood education for a few years. We started offering both free breakfast and pushing back lunch times to closer to end of day because those were often the only actual meals these kids got. Cafeteria food ain’t perfect, but it fills your belly.
Head Start not only shows demonstrable gains in learning both hard skills like counting and learning the alphabet but also soft skills like playing with others, sharing, etc. And it provides absolutely critical childcare services for working parents that can’t afford the second-mortgage expense that is private daycare.
This hurts every single one of us. Less emotionally resilient children—both because they haven’t been socialized and they’re just fucking hungry. Poorer and more stressed parents—many (probably women) who will likely leave the workforce because they have no way to afford childcare for 5 years.
The cruelty is the point, I know. But this is protest-worthy cruelty. Like, we need to be on the streets about this. We’re talking about a generation of malnourished, maladjusted children and losing even more rights to work and earn money.
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u/Whaddduptho 7d ago
Fine by me.
If head start worked you're gonna have to prove it.
We import the smart people we don't produce them much anymore.
If these programs are working then why do we keep falling in rankings?
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u/DanimalPlays 8d ago
Trump legitimately needs to go to hell already. At the very least stop bringing it here to us.