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Thanks to you, we successfully advocated for a budget that restores much of the dramatic cuts to child care presented in February. With an $82 million restoration, Speaker Quinn, the City Council and the Mayor sent the message that child care for our city’s working families is indispensable.

“I’m not an expert in politics, but when I received this letter from ACS, I said to myself – there must be other areas of the budget we can cut before we cut child care. There must be a better way. This cut is setting up our children for failure.”