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California Budget Impasse May Halt Child-Care Subsidy Checks.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2003

By Jocelyn Wiener, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 11--State officials and family advocates say 300,000 low-income families are in danger of losing child-care subsidies until a California budget is signed.

As a result of a recent state Supreme Court decision, the state controller has said that, as of July 1, the Department of Education cannot release subsidy funding until legislators agree upon a budget.

Shondell Pearson, 31, of North Sacramento said temporarily losing child-care money for her three youngest children may force her to leave her job as a family service worker with the Sacramento Employment and Training Agency.

"I can't leave them at home," she said. "I'm really going to have...

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