Tag: Poverty in the United States

• Harkin, Senate Democrats Introduce Legislation to Expand Access to High-Quality Early Learning Programs

  Here is the news release. A snippet: The early childhood education proposal is a 10-year initiative to expand and improve early learning opportunities for children across the birth to age 5 continuum. The bill would fund preschool for 4-year old children from families earning below 200% of the federal poverty level, and encourage states to spend…

  Matthew Campbell

  November 13, 2013

  Announcement, Congressional Briefing, Discussion, Legal

  Early childhood education, Head Start Program, Poverty in the United States, Preschool education, Tom Harkin