The just-passed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 includes important and long-overdue investments to help restore fairness in our tax system, reduce health care costs, and address the climate crisis.
The proposed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is a significant step forward for restoring fairness to our tax system, reducing health care coverage costs, and addressing the climate crisis—which disproportionately harms communities of color and those with low incomes—even as it falls far short of…
"When you look at American spending on children, it is much more comparable to middle-income countries like Turkey and Mexico than it is to wealthy European countries."
CLASP was quoted about how the Murray-Kaine proposal would increase the number of children receiving child care assistance by more than 1 million children.
This article says the Murray-Kaine proposal "proposal would provide more funding for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), expanding access to an estimated 23,256 children in Virginia according to an analysis by the Center for Law and Social Policy."
Stephanie Schmit, the director of childcare and early education at CLASP, told The New Republic that this investment would increase the reach of the existing block grants by 70 percent.
"The core of the proposal — more federal funds flowing to the states — would increase the number of children receiving child care assistance by1 million or more, according to an estimate by the Center for Law and Social Policy, while also expanding the supply…
"A report by the Center for Law and Social Policy, the National Women’s Law Center and the Century Foundation, a trio of liberal think tanks, found the child care workforce has dropped by more than 10% from its pre-pandemic levels."
"Notably, the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) published a fact sheet that estimates that more than one million children could benefit from the new proposal."