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Salt Lake County Council votes to cut day care and senior services.
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Miss: Cradle to Grave And we call ourselves a pro-life state? Not likely. The Salt Lake County Council just pushed through two measures that beg the question of “when” life matters. The first seeks to close four county-run day care centers because they are expensive to operate.
“This is not a statutory duty of the county to provide daycare,” said District 3 Councilmember Aimee Winder Newton. She’s pretty sure parents can find other options, even if they’re more expensive or unavailable. Parents raised a ruckus, and now the council is reconsidering.
But just like its party-line vote on day care…
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