Sequestration hits Hispanic families hard

By Lyndsey Layton, Washington Post

YONKERS, N.Y. — The only ones left in Room 5 at the Whitney Young Head Start Center are the two turtles thrashing around in a small aquarium. The reading nook is empty. The CD player is silent.

After more than a dozen years, this federally funded center serving mostly Latino families closed its doors for good on Friday, a victim of the federal budget cuts known as sequestration.

Sequestration has turned out to be less dire than predicted in many areas, as some agencies have found ways around the worst of the mandatory reductions. But for poor people who rely heavily on government social services, the cuts have had sharp and immediate effects. That is particularly true for Latinos.

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