GOP lawmakers quietly slash funds for Dolly Parton children’s book charity

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Kathleen Culliton,  Managing Editor  -  Raw StoryStephan: Dolly Parton, through a charity foundation she set up, as you have probably heard has distributed to children around the world 300 million books to encourage their literacy. She had been getting some federal funding, but the Republicans in Congress cut millions of dollars from her book project this year. The Republican Party is evil; it's that simple. If you vote Republican you are voting for evil. U.S. singer Dolly Parton speaks at the launch of her Imagination Library book project at the Magna Centre in Sheffield, northern England December 5, 2007. Credit: Nigel Roddis / Reuters Republicans this year quietly cut millions of dollars of funding for the late and beloved Dolly Parton’s children’s book charity, according to multiple reports. Imagination Library, the nonprofit founded by Parton that sends free books to children across the world, faces an uncertain future in Indiana and Missouri as Republican lawmakers limit public funding, Newsweek reported Wednesday. The charity, meanwhile, has vowed to carry on. “The work ahead has never felt more meaningful, and we will carry it forward as she lifts us all up,” the charity said in a recent post. “Dolly, we will always love you.” State funding for the program was removed from Indiana’s budget last year at a time when more than 125,000 local children were enrolled, according to Newsweek. Missouri froze enrollment in the Imagination Library on July 1 after the program [...]Read the Full Article »