Ivanka didn't hear from MCH model

GULFPORT, Miss. – President Trump’s daughter, Ivanka will be is Gulfport on Oct. 24 to co-host a Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Labor Department-sponsored event at the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center, according to a White House e-mail to the Sun Herald newspaper. She will co-host with the bureau’s director Patti Greene. U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who is running Nov. 6 for the seat she currently holds after Sen. Thad Cochran vacated it, will be at the event, along with local government officials, small business owners, working parents and private business people, the White House says. The White House said Ivanka Trump is attending the event in her official capacity as an adviser to the president; and referred questions about Hyde-Smith’s political race to her campaign. The White House e-mail also says the event is designed “to highlight why high-quality, affordable child care is critical in order to have a strong and prosperous workforce.” (Source: Sun Herald 10/23/18) UPDATE: Ivanka Trump came to south Mississippi for a conversation about women and childcare, but didn’t hear from representatives of a Biloxi model program: Moore Community House, which is funded by the event’s sponsor, the U.S. Labor Department. “(I)t’s just surprising that we weren’t included in that meeting,” Carol Burnett, executive director of Moore Community House, told the Sun Herald. “It would have been an opportunity to showcase this (successful) model ...” MCH “provides affordable and dependable childcare for women while they train for jobs that pay living wages,” she said. It is one of 14 recipients nationally of DoL’s Strengthening Working Families Initiative grants. Women in Construction pairs the DoL grant with state funding that pays 100 percent of child care for one year to the women enrolled. (Source: Sun Herald 10/26/18)