Sequestration Causes 70,000 Kids To Be Kicked Off Head Start, But Big Oil Complains

Sequestration Causes 70,000 Kids To Be Kicked Off Head Start, But Big Oil Complains About Small, Delayed Lease Sales

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/05/14/2009711/sequestration-causes-70000-kids-to-be-kicked-off-head-start-but-big-oil-complains-about-small-delayed-lease-sales/?mobile=nc

Across-the-board cuts to government programs that went into effect in March, known as sequestration, are impacting Americans’ daily lives in many ways.

For example, up to 70,000 children will be cut from Head Start education programs, the budget of the Federal Emergency Management Agency will be slashed by $1 billion, and approximately 3,000 jobs at national parks will likely be affected.

Despite the breadth of major impacts, the oil and gas industry had the gall last week to complain that the Bureau of Land Management, the agency which oversees leasing on public lands, delayed two small lease sales in California until October “due to budget constraints resulting from the sequester.”

The Institute for Energy Research, a non-profit backed by the Koch brothers, wrote in a press statement that the Obama administration is planning to “maximize the sequester’s harm to the U.S. economy.” And the American Petroleum Institute, the industry’s main lobbying group, said the decision would kill jobs and stifle economic growth.

(More at the link.)