Senators <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Dodd" class="extiw" title="w:Chris Dodd">Chris Dodd</a> (left) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jeffords" class="extiw" title="w:Jim Jeffords">Jim Jeffords</a> were on hand at the Pentagon to echo the National Women's Law Center's praise for DoD's child development program. The center May 16 presented Defense Secretary <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/William_Cohen" title="William Cohen">William Cohen</a> with its report on military child care, which extols the program as a model for the nation. Dodd hailed DoD's program as the "gold standard." Jeffords pointed out that absenteeism caused by poor quality child care costs American businesses more than $3 billion a year.
Photo by Linda D. Kozaryn.
2000-05-17
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