Head Start children working to fix The Debt

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Hayley Harris helps Aubrie Bacio paint a chair during a "Fill a Seat" fundraiser at the Community Partnership for Child Development offices in Colorado Springs on Thursday.

Facing the task of cutting 142 children from the Head Start program in Colorado Springs this fall, the teachers and administrators there came up with a creative response: Have the children paint and decorate empty chairs, then sell them for $500 apiece to stave off the worst of the across-the-board federal cuts heading their way. So far, in a month, their “Fill a Seat” fund-raiser has filled just two.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/us/politics/sequester-leads-to-creative-stopgap-measures.html