Brooklyn kids rally against child-care budget cuts
On Thursday morning, hundreds of Brooklyn kids joined more than 500 children from after-school programs across the city at a rally outside City Hall to urge the Mayor not to cut 47,000 slots from child care and after-school programs.
The Mayor’s preliminary budget for fiscal year 2014 would slash more than $130 million from these programs, serving mostly low-income families.
At the rally, hundreds of children from city after-school programs, including many from the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA) network joined parents and advocates from the Campaign for Children, a coalition of more than 150 child care and after-school advocacy and providers. FPWA is one of the city’s largest social service support organizations.