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Talk about gaslighting.
How else would you describe Republican legislators who transformed the Gem State into a child care desert before turning on working families and their kids?
Before killing a $6 million federal grant to promote quality early childhood learning by a 36-to-34 vote, they managed to drown one of the partners involved - the Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children - in a wave of innuendo. But what else could these culture warriors do?
Rep. Priscilla Giddings, R-White Bird, couldn’t defend Idaho’s sorry record as one of six states that doesn’t lift a finger to help young children secure quality care. Not only has it refused to spend its own resources, but the state has frequently slapped away offers of assistance from the federal government. Even Idaho’s perennial counterparts in the national bottom of the basement - notably Mississippi and Alabama - are doing much more.
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