Five hundred kids would lose Head Start spots. Eighty people who work with kids with disabilities would lose their jobs. Three thousand civilian defense workers would be furloughed.
Those are some of the estimates of the collateral damage to Connecticut if Congress fails to reach a last-minute deficit-reduction deal this week and the so-called “Sequester” — $85 billion in deep across-the-board federal budget cuts — take place.
The estimates come from the White House. In addition to the aforementioned impacts, the estimates include a $2 million loss of environmental funding, 200 evaporated child-care slots, and a $341,000 loss in money to help Connecticut tackle public-health threats like “infectious diseases, natural disasters, and biological, chemical, nuclear, and radiological events.
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