EarlyStories - Commentary on Coverage of Children’s Learning (The New Minimum Wage and Head Start Eligibility)

Welcome to EarlyStories, a weblog by Richard Lee Colvin and Liz Willen at the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, Teachers College, Columbia University. It contains commentary on coverage of issues (in newspapers, magazines, television, radio, blogs) related to early childhood education, broadly defined, inside and outside of schools, preschools, subway cars, living rooms and the dining table.

The New Minimum Wage and Head Start Eligibility

Posted by Richard Lee Colvin on January 30, 2007 9:16 AM

This forward-looking story from an Iowa television station tells us why the eligibility criteria for Head Start matters. The story says that a recently enacted hike in minimum wage in Iowa will make some families ineligible for Head Start. This is certainly a thread that journalists ought to be pulling to figure out the implications of the current minimum wage debate in Congress.