April 2, 2025  

WASHINGTON, DC – In response to the Trump Administration’s decision to shutter five regional Office of Head Start locations in Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle, Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy Executive Director Sondra Goldschein released the following statement:

“The Trump administration is gutting Head Start, a program that provides more than 750,000 families with affordable child care so that they can work, care for their families and contribute to our economy, in order to fund tax breaks for billionaires and corporations. This is the Republican agenda, exactly as outlined in Project 2025: power and profit ahead of working families. Starving Head Start of resources and rendering the program incapable of serving families is the point.”

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The Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy is fighting for a future where all people can afford to care for themselves and their loved ones. We do this by building political power to pass policies that lower costs for families, like paid family and medical leave, quality, affordable child care and elder care.