Trump’s Next Target: Poverty-Stricken Kids

By Jonathan Cohn

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“It’s very clear these changes are happening without thought, without a plan in place,” Stephanie Schmit, director of child care and early education at the Center for Law and Social Policy, told me.

And it wasn’t just the workers who found out at the last minute, according to Olivia Golden, who served as HHS assistant secretary for children and families during the Clinton administration. “Career leadership had no idea what was happening until people started calling them that day that they were being fired, or they were fired themselves,” Golden told me.

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