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Friday, June 07, 2013  Douglass Community Services Head Start Program announced  budget cuts that include 18 staff positions and services to 77 children currently in its Early Head Start and Head Start programs.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013  Budget cuts ground 3rd of Air Force warplanes; those headed to Afghanistan to be mission ready

Tuesday, March 05, 2013  The Head Start program that covers eight counties in Northeast Missouri is facing a cut of $235,000 becasue of sequestration cuts at the federal level.

Saturday, March 02, 2013  Friday, the federal government made a series of forced funding cuts under what's called sequestration.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013  The automatic, across-the-board cuts will amount to $85 billion. If Congress doesn't act by Friday, the budgets of most federal government programs and agencies will shrink. That includes budgets for public schools.