Coronavirus Relief Funds Are About to Run Out for the Child Care Industry

By Alexis Goldstein

(EXCERPT)

Congressional action has been terrifyingly insufficient. The CARES Act dedicated a mere $3.5 billion to the Child Care and Development Block Grant. This level of funding does not even cover a month’s worth of costs for existing providers: a joint report by the National Women’s Law Center and the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) showed it would take $9.6 billion a month to maintain the sector during the pandemic. Even the Democrats’ Heroes Act, which passed the House in May but has stalled in the Senate, provides only $7 billion of the estimated $50 billion minimum needed to truly save the child care sector.

 

Read the full article here

 

 

Source URL: https://truthout.org/articles/coronavirus-relief-funds-are-about-to-run-out-for-the-child-care-industry/