The President has signed a 2014 spending bill, which includes a substantial increase of $1.4 billion for child care and early education. Over $1 billion of that increase is for Head Start, the nation’s early childhood program for poor children. 

On January 14, 2014, Congress unveiled an omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government for fiscal year 2014, which began on October 1, 2013. This was the next step in the budget deal agreed to last October to reopen the government after 16 days…

This article discusses CLASP report on how few eligible children are enrolled in Head Start.

This article cites CLASP's report about how few states are meeting Head Start quality standards.

Despite funding increases for Head Start over the past six years, only 42 percent of eligible children are now served, and just 4 percent of those eligible are served by Early Head Start, a report by the New York-based National Center for Children in Poverty…

Head Start (HS) and Early Head Start (EHS) provide poor children and their families with vitally important early education and family support services.

Since the early part of the decade, the number of young children (those from birth to 5 years of age ) living in poverty in the United States has been climbing.