In The News

June 21, 2012: ABC Sacramento: Brown, Democrats announce deal on remaining CA budget 

June 21, 2012: KCRA Sacramento: Budget compromise reached and it will cut more from Californias neediest

June 11, 2012: Women's Foundation of California Blog: We Still Need You to Stand with Women

May 31, 2012: KPFA: Pacifica Evening News (starts at 41:17)

May 14, 2012: Women's Foundation of California Blog: Why Losing Childcare Means Losing Hope

May 14, 2012: Women's Foundation of California Blog: CalWORKs and Childcare-A Road out of Poverty

May 21, 2012: Times-Standard Online: Local 'Parent Voices' join Sacramento rally

May 18, 2012: The Education Report: Child care cuts and kindergarten readiness

May 18, 2012: Contra Costa Times: California's child care system faces deep cuts

May 16, 2012: MSNBC: Child care cost hikes derailing women's careers

May 14, 2012: ABC: Governor: Tax hikes needed for $16B budget gap

May 14, 2012: SFGate: Brown proposes 4-day week for state workers

May 14, 2012: Record.net: How Gov. Jerry Brown's revision of the state budget could affect San Joaquin County

May 14, 2012: Yahoo News (photo)

May 9, 2012: River News Herald: Stand for Children Day:Childcare keeps California Working 

May 2, 2012: Capitol Public Radio: As Parents Protest Cuts, Steinberg Acknowledges No Other Choice

May 2, 2012: ABC: Families protest cuts to subsidized childcare

May 2, 2012: KPFA Radio: Capitol Report (starts at 26:52)

Spring Issue: Children's Advocate: Parents Say No More Cuts

April 6, 2012: Huffington Post: Child Care Program Cuts Leave Working Poor Struggling

Jan 18, 2012: KABC:  http://www.criticalmention.com/components/url_gen/play_flash.php?autoplay=1&clip_info=2483001452%7C12%7C32%5E

Jan 18, 2012: Sacramento Buisness Times: Rally to challenge state to generate revenue, not cut programs

Jan 17, 2012: Vida en el valle: Budget cuts will hurt families

Jan 10, 2012: SFChron Blog: Critics slam Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget cuts

Jan 10, 2012: Fresno Bee: Fresno rally aims at state cuts in social services

Jan 10, 2012: ABC30: Protesters demonstrate against governor's budget

Jan 10, 2012: Univision Fresno: Fresno se une a protestas contra recortes de Brown

Dec 15, 2011: KCRA News: Protesters Slam Calif. Trigger Cuts

Dec 15, 2011: CBS 12 Action News: Latest Budget Cut Could Leave Parents Without Child Care 

Dec 13, 2011: ABC Local: $1billion in mid-year cuts coming to education, disabled

Nov 28, 2011: Sonoma State University NewsCenter: SSU Professor, Student at Congressional Briefings on Welfare and Poverty Policy, Dec. 2

Winter 2011: The Children's Advocate: Parents win Child Care Funding

Nov 3, 2011 Times-Standard: Parent advocacy groups expands to Humboldt

Oct 3, 2011 Bloomberg Business Week: Falling Wages Threatening U.S. as Consumers May Cut Spending

Sept 13, 2011 Equal Voice Newspaper: Getting Sick Doesn't Pay

August 19, 2011 People's World: Rally tells Sen. Feinstein: Fight for Social Security

May 4, 2011 KCRA: Taking a Stand for Children

Feb 17, 2011 News 10 ABC: 'Knowledge is Power' child care training

Jan 23, 2011 San Francisco Chronicle: Gina Jackson responds to planned state budget cuts

Jan 11, 2011: Jerry Brown proposes drastic cuts, tax extensions

Dec 6, 2010 ABC 7: Schwarzenegger: Cuts unavoidable to close deficit

Dec 5, 2010 Marin Independent Journal: Marin Voice: Parents march on Sacramento to fight for child care

Nov 18, 2010 California Watch: Deep cuts to child care delayed

Nov 11, 2010 Chico News and Review: Child-care funds in limbo 

Nov 8, 2010 The Real Deal Blog: Update on Child Care Funding in California

Nov 5, 2010 LA Times: Capitol encounter underscores challenges for Jerry Brown

Nov 4, 2010 KCRA: Governor-Elect Hitches Ride To Sacramento (proof the Governor received the petitions!)

Nov 4, 2010 Oakland Tribune: Oakland judge expected to rule Friday in California child care case

Nov 4, 2010 LA Times: Jerry Brown visits the Capitol to begin budget talks

Nov 4, 2010 AP: AP Images: Governor

Oct 30, 2010 SF Chronicle: End to child care subsidy stayed by Judge 4 days

Oct 29, 2010 sfgate (Associated Press): Judge temporarily delays funding cuts for CalWORKS

Oct 29, 2010 ABC 7: State will pay for CalWORKs Stage 3 day care for low-income families until Nov 5

Oct 29, 2010 KCRA: Judge Issues Order to Halt Child Care Cuts

Oct 27, 2010 The Real Deal Blog: ELECTION 2010: Governor Schwarzenegger's Legacy--Successful “welfare to work” program to ineffective “work to welfare program”

Oct 20, 2010 Marinscope Newspapers: State cuts child care, locals protest 

Oct 18, 2010 Oakland Tribune: Thousands of East Bay families to lose subsidized child care Nov 1

Oct 15, 2010 KCRA: Advocates: Line Item Cuts puts kids at risk

Oct 15, 2010 ABC News 10: Protestors say Governor's veto will force parents to lose child care, jobs

Oct 15, 2010 Sacramento Bee: Child care cuts force families to waiting lists

Oct 14, 2010 Fresno Bee: State vetoes cut into Valley families' child care

Oct 14, 2010 Press Democrat: Child Care program hit by budget cuts

Oct 14, 2010 ABC 7: Oct 13, 2010 SantaRosaMom.com: Governor cuts CalWorks Stage 3 childcare funding from budget

Oct 12, 2010 Marin Independent Journal: State budget targets child care for low-income Marin moms

Aug 18, 2010 Capital Public Radio: Protestors Oppose Budget Cuts to Health and Human Services, Want Tax Hikes Instead

Aug 13, 2010 Oakland Tribune/Contra Costa Times: Budget cuts threaten child care as parents battle costs

Aug 3, 2010 Ms.Foundation For Women-Igniting Change Blog: Grantee 'Parent Voices' Organizes to Save Child Care in CA  

July 15, 2010 Capitol Desk: When Politics Becomes a Carnival

June 4, 2010 Equal Voice Newsletter: Welfare to Work and Back Again?

May 28, 2010 People's World: Child care on the chopping block

Spring 2010 Children's Advocate: Parents and ECE teachers campaign for child care funding;Padres y maestros de ECE hacen campaña sobre el cuidado de niños

Jan 2009 Wall Street Journal Online Juggle Blog: http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2010/01/05/should-the-government-help-provide-child-care/ Should the Government Help Provide Child Care

Nov-Dec 09 Children's Advocate: Parent Applies to join Marin Child Care Commission ; Una madre solicita ingresar en la Comisión de Cuidado Infantil de Marin

Sept-Oct 09 Children's Advocate: Parents and providers call on legislators to protect child care; Padres y proveedores unen fuerzas en pro del cuidado infantil