Junket doesn't help kids – Local/State – NewsObserver.com

Why is it that these indispensible conferences that state employees are always jetting to never take place in cities such as Duluth, Minn., in January or Gary, Ind., anytime?

That’s what some North Carolinians are wondering upon learning that 16 state-employed child care consultants are going to San Diego for a conference on toddler and infant care. In January. They’re using federal stimulus money to pay for that trip and a second one in July. Story continues here ➤