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Parent tells Denver council cuts to Medicaid and SNAP will harm Head Start families
Summary
A Denver parent and teacher urged the City Council to consider how federal benefit cuts to Medicaid and SNAP could reduce services tied to Head Start, saying those cuts would worsen child health and learning outcomes and increase downstream public costs.
Stacy Kessler, a parent and preschool teacher, told Denver City Council on July 21 that cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program would harm children served by Head Start and related programs. Kessler said her 3-year-old attends a Head Start-affiliated school at Dahlia and described how the program’s gardening activities and on-site services affect families. “I eat lettuce, my lettuce,” she quoted her son saying about produce…
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