BY HANNAN ADELY • HADELY@LOHUD.COM • APRIL 5, 2010
Ingrid Giminez and her husband both work full time in the restaurant business, but their salaries are not enough to cover rent, household costs and day care for their 3-year-old son.
So, when Giminez learned she would lose a $395 monthly subsidy from the county for day care, which covered a third of the bill, she did what she had to. She decided to pull her son out of day care and cut her work hours, although she fears it could mean losing her job.
“It’s kind of hard when you are going to work and trying to study to give a better life to your kids,” said the 30-year-old Port Chester resident, who is studying two nights a week to be a manicurist.
Altogether, 200 families have been told they will lose day-care “scholarships” from Westchester County, part of $1.5 million in day- care spending that County Executive Rob Astorino has trimmed from the budget. Astorino has laid out $16 million in budget cuts, including those to child care, to help the county cope with a large budget deficit
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