On May 2 Jerome Underwood stood in front of his staff at Action for a Better Community to alert them of potential layoffs within its Head Start and Early Head Start programs.
“I watched people suffer,” Underwood said. “This was the worst day of my professional career.”
The nonprofit had been providing early education services for low-income families for almost 60 years, but for the first time ABC faced the possibility of losing its federal funding for those programs.
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