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May 19, 2025 | News Clip | Stephanie Schmit

The real-world costs of eliminating Head Start

By Stephanie Schmit (op-ed) (EXCERPT) All of us want our kids to get a fair start in life. And for millions of American families, that start has come from the federal Head Start program. But unfortunately, President Donald Trump has frozen Head Start funds, laid…

May 6, 2025 | News Clip | Stephanie Schmit

Trump is trying to pay his way into a US baby boom. Experts say it won’t work

By Robin Buller (Excerpt) Stephanie Schmidt, the director of childcare and early education at the Center for Law and Social Policy, emphasized that the average cost of infant care in the US is $14,000 per year, with that number ticking up to closer to $25,000…

May 1, 2025 | News Clip | Stephanie Schmit

The Real World Costs of Eliminating Head Start

CLASP’s Stephanie Schmit authored an op-ed in OtherWords about what our country could look like without Head Start. It featured contributions from past Head Start students, parents, and educators to underscore the critical value of Head Start. >> Read the op-ed here

April 23, 2025 | News Clip | Stephanie Schmit

$19,961 a year for child care? No wonder parents are struggling.

By The Boston Globe (The Editorial Board) (Excerpt) “Stephanie Schmit, director of child care and early education at the Center for Law and Social Policy, a Washington, DC-based antipoverty nonprofit, said while the federal government gives states child-care grants, that money has never come close…

April 11, 2025 | News Clip | Stephanie Schmit

How the Head Start layoffs could make childcare less affordable and safe for all families

By Pavithra Mohan (Excerpt) The move has left many childcare providers with no avenue to get answers for their questions about grants or approval for critical updates to their facilities. “From my perspective, what is happening is an attack on childcare and early education under the veil…

April 6, 2025 | News Clip | Stephanie Schmit

Trump’s Next Target: Poverty-Stricken Kids

By Jonathan Cohn (Excerpt) “It’s very clear these changes are happening without thought, without a plan in place,” Stephanie Schmit, director of child care and early education at the Center for Law and Social Policy, told me. And it wasn’t just the workers who found out…

April 4, 2025 | News Clip | Stephanie Schmit

Head Start imperiled by HHS cutbacks, advocates say

By Kara Arundel (Excerpt) A recent report by the Center for Law and Social Policy found 40,000 children nationwide could lose access to child care if TANF and SSGB funding is cut. Children in California, Massachusetts and North Carolina would be hardest hit, according to the…

March 24, 2025 | News Clip | Stephanie Schmit

How did childcare in the US become so absurdly expensive?

By Robin Buller (EXCERPT) “There’s just a huge mental load and burden that parents have to take on to navigate the system, because it wasn’t designed to meet their needs,” said Stephanie Schmit, director of the childcare team at the Center for Law and Social…

March 4, 2025 | News Clip | Wendy Cervantes

The immigration crackdown threatening to break America’s child care system

By Rachel Cohen The immigration crackdown threatening to break America’s child care system What happens if the people caring for American children get deported? Read the full article at vox.com

January 22, 2025 | Blog Post | Rachel Wilensky

State Allocations for CCDBG Emergency Funding

The Continuing Resolution includes $500 million for CCDBG, half of which will be used for disaster relief in affected states and the other half to be allocated among all states as emergency discretionary funding.

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