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Officials should protect low-income families
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Sep. 24, 2011 12:17 am
I urge our members of Congress, Sen. Chuck Grassley and Tom Harkin and Rep. Dave Loebsack, to protect low-income families by allocating the necessary funding for Head Start and child care programs to maintain existing services.
I also urge them to demand that this new budget “super committee” raise revenue and protect low-income programs such as Medicaid and food stamps when it starts looking for more things to defund.
Judy Smith McDowell
Cedar Rapids
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