Business Insider Nearly 65,000 children in Head Start programs nationwide may lose access in the coming days after missing their November 1 funding deadline for federal grants due to the ongoing government shutdown, according to the National Head Start Association. Over 22,000 staff at these centers are also at risk of losing their jobs or being furloughed. Head Start is a federally funded program that provides childcare and early education to over 715,000 children from low-income families, from birth to age 5. Those eligible for Head Start programs are families

wthr.com As the government shutdown continues in Washington, the impacts are being felt across the country, including here in Indiana through federally-funded programs Hoosiers depend on. One of those programs, Head Start, provides childcare and early learning for kids, starting at birth all the way to age 5.       But the executive director of the Indiana Head Start Association says some of the state’s Head Start programs are already having to make tough choices to stay open. “Head Start, our politics is children,” said Rhett Cecil, the association’s executive director. As the

U.S. News Staff Thousands of miles from Washington, D.C., Americans are feeling the effects of President Donald Trump’s second-term assault on the federal government. In Albuquerque, New Mexico – about 1,650 miles from the nation’s capital – Kaiya Brown wept as she said goodbye to her professors, laid off in a wave of funding cuts. In Jenks, Oklahoma – over 1,100 miles from Washington and the White House – Patricia Gross watched her small grant-writing business lose all of its contracts seemingly overnight. And in Moscow, Idaho – 2,000 miles

WASHINGTON (AP) The problems for Head Start began days after President Donald Trump took office. Trump’s administration announced it would freeze federal grants — the primary funding for the early education program that serves more than half a million low-income children. Then came glitches with the funding website that forced nearly two dozen Head Start centers to close temporarily. Even after the funding freeze was aborted — and the website was restored — those who run the programs remained on edge. On Tuesday, the administration gave them another reason to