(Photo courtesy of Cassie Reed)Reed, a single mom, enrolled her youngest child, an infant daughter named Evie, in Head Start. “The kids that Head Start serves will bear the brunt of the impact, but it will go beyond. I see it as another attempt to dismantle the Head Start program.” Meanwhile, last year’s government shutdown also locked thousands of the nation’s most vulnerable kids out of Head Start programming. For example, Early Head Start, an extension of Head Start that serves infants and toddlers, allows one adult to care for up to four 2-year-olds at a given time.