Suffolk day care funding cuts hit home hard
Photo credit: Getty Images | Children do handicrafts at a day care center for children in this file photo. (Dec. 22, 2011)
Samantha Orellana, a widowed mother of a 2- and a 3-year-old, says she works two jobs and doesn't "want to live on the welfare system forever."
But Orellana said that since her husband died last year after being hit by a car, "my children and I have not been able to catch a break." Her son and daughter were among 2,200 Suffolk children of the working poor who have lost their day care since...