Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report, "Can Poor Families Find Health Care?" published by Associate Professor of Education Bruce Fuller and doctoral student Xiaoyan Liang, said Massachusetts has 40 percent fewer child care centers for children in poor communities than in wealthy communities...
...Fuller said this type of cut in welfare spending is harmful if the state cannot adequately provide child care for families on public assistance...
...thirds of all welfare recipients have pre-school aged children," Fuller said. "If just a fraction of welfare parents go to work, the immense demand for preschooling in the inner-city will bring down an already fragile system...
...Fuller advocated the creation of a "targeting mechanism" in child care before the state makes welfare cuts...
...present, subsidized child care exists for both rich and poor communities in Massachusetts. Fuller argued for a mechanism to ensure that federal funds provided under the Child Care and Development Block Grant Program are distributed in the form of subsidized child care to poorer communities rather than middle and upper class communities...