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By Alycia Hardy On March 15, 2022, President Joe Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, which included $6.2 billion in annual discretionary funds for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG). The annual appropriations process is an important opportunity for federal policymakers to…

Child care is too expensive and far too difficult to find for most families while providers make far too little. The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) is the primary federal source for child care assistance and was designed to provide access to child care…

An estimated 1 million+ children could benefit from the Murray-Kaine child care and early education proposal.

Two years into the pandemic and one year after the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), this brief examines how decision makers implementing ARPA have used COVID relief funding and policy opportunities to lay the groundwork for longer-term, transformative change by equitably supporting…

This report was derived from the October 2021 Building Strong Foundations for Families project Economic Security Convening. 

The analysis details the current CCDBG initial annual income eligibility limit in all 50 states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. It also looks at the income eligibility threshold for the first year of the BBB’s act child care program.

Alycia Hardy and Stephanie Schmit detail the child care & preschool provisions of the Build Back Better Act. Read the executive summary here.

This fact sheet highlights the actions that select states have implemented to make the most of recent historic funding.

Alycia Hardy and Stephanie Schmit detail the child care & preschool provisions of the Build Back Better Act. 

The most recent version of the Build Back Better Act, released by the House Committee on Rules on November