A painful object lesson in the costs of austerity

Check out this excellent and gutwrenching Post story, which explains more clearly than most sequester reporting how — and why — the sequester affected different federal programs differently, and tells the story of how four-year-old Kentuckian Carli Hopkins got kicked out of preschool by a federal budget plan adopted because of inertia and accident.

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