SHOULD WE SPEND MONEY FOR PEOPLE OR FOR PRISONS? The awful story of Shanesha Taylor is whats wrong with the state of our union: The Arizona mother of two got called to a job interview she desperately needed. With no place to leave her two young kids - no neighbors because shes homeless, no co-workers because shes jobless, no paid childcare because she has no money, no free childcare because of our government - she left them in her car, with the windows cracked, at naptime. When she came back 45 minutes later, police arrested her on two child abuse felonies and put her kids in state custody. Leaving small kids alone in a car is a terrible idea. Heres another terrible idea: Arizona cutting almost half its childcare budget, along with health care, job training and housing, while spending over $1 billion on prisons. -Abby Zimet, Common Dreams
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:45:23 +0000
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