What role, if any, should the government play in controlling the costs of childcare . If you have children in child care, 2027488000. If youre a stayathome parent, 2027488001. All others, you can call 2027488002. You can also send us a tweet or leave us a comment on our Facebook Page. The wall street journal recently wrote about this dilemma that parents are facing using some data from the Economic Policy institute. States where day care costs more than college the headline. Now more expensive to educate a fouryearold in preschool than an 18yearold in college in nearly half the country. Care for acost of fouryearold at a fulltime day greaterter or school is than the average cost of instate tuition at a fouryear institution in 23 states. Here are some of the stats for you. The annual cost of childcare is greater than the average cost of instate tuition. The average cost of childcare exceeded 10 of the minimum income for a family of four. Some of the most expensive states include massach
Program. Ellison, why did they decide to do this . Reporter there was a lot of different information that came out in the meeting, and it actually started an hour late, and when they finally got to what is the biggest news in the meeting, 12 members voted to relinquish the grant. The classes will still start next week. Students who begin school on august 29th, you will have uninterrupted Head Start Services for the entire 2016 17 school year. We will collaborate with our partners in county government to administer an agreement, and to develop a longterm solution. Reporter that was not all we saw. Therwa there was no say sis for adding the emergency item to the ageneral. Reporter and pushback from some members of the board and the chairman. Whether you consider it an emergency or not, we have a lot of legislation that is spending. Reporter five Board Members called for the vice chair and eubanks to retine tonight. Tonight members of the board asked for the same thing. I support the dema
Concerns. New federal inspectors will mentor metros inspectors. Soon, their instruction manual will be scrapped for a new one that is easier to follow. Im not hoping anything. Reporter general manager paul wedefeld says all employees must be on board with changes. If theyre not doing their job, then were not going to see eye to eye. And its not going to be good for either of us. Metro riders hope this emergency meeting is not just talk. I think really, employees follow what example theyre going to get from management. I hope that they gather facts with it. It depends how long it will take to get them fixed. I also just found out that metro is now worried about sharp curbs in the track. More than 100 new inspections just started monday. Pete monteen, wusa 9. Okay, pete. Thanks for that. And you know the metro has been focused on inspecting track crossovers that caused a slew of new weekend shutdowns. Metro, in the middle month track maintenance blitz. Were in for a stretch of hot weathe
People here behind me on jfk boulevard. Hundreds of union city classmates, families of the two boys who were killed, their mayors, city officials out here, theyre all here to say farewell while the accused driver was in court and we learned more about that driving record. Reporter the mother of Brian Rodriguez saying together since 2nd grade, together well bury them. A Community Together in sadness, losing two young lives in a senseless tragedy. He was a great person to be around. He made everybody want to smile and laugh. Reporter fundraisers are collecting thousands of dollars to help the families of 17yearold Union City High schooler Brian Rodriguez and 16yearold clifton park middle schooler noel herrera. It shows it speeding down jfk boulevard moments before the driver lost control saturday night hitting the children as they walked down the sidewalk. Stopped at the red light. It crossed over the southbound lanes and mounted the sidewalk, striking three teenagers. Reporter the accus
Make any judgments based on sharia law, the chance that any muslim, however devout and ofceful in his or her view public life, there is no way the senate of the u. S. As presently composed and composed anyway we can anticipate for the next muslim wouldhat a get appointed to the Supreme Court and confirmed. Lets start with the lower courts and try to work up. We have muslims in the house. That is an important breakthrough. And perhaps ime, should not be saying this because i am a guy. There was a time when there were not many women in congress. Increasingly, the country has discovered the virtue of the feminine perspective. We are getting more women appropriately and we now have three women on the Supreme Court, which is the high point for that sector of our society. I dont think in my lifetime, which is not that much longer, who will not see a muslim on the we will not see a muslim on the court. One must question. Last question. It seems like we have a people of a fear of people puttin