Cuts now taking effect across the country have forced the cancellation of Head Start summer programs, ended regular Head Start programs weeks early, or dropped children from Head Start classrooms.  They have cut unemployment benefits for long-term jobless people by 10 percent or more.  Many thousands of low-income people already on waiting lists for years are consigned to wait longer for rental vouchers; others with vouchers are seeing large rent increases or are losing the vouchers they had.  Fewer homebound seniors are getting home-delivered meals – or getting fewer of them.  Teachers and teachers’ aides in schools serving low-income children are being laid off.  Public defenders are being furloughed.