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Alyssa Fortner, Alycia Hardy, and Stephanie Schmit detail the importance of significant and sustained direct spending for school-age child care. This fact sheet highlights a new CLASP analysis estimating that it would cost between $48.4 billion and $79.6 billion to reach all school-age children eligible through CCDBG.
“We are now seeing unprecedented support across the board, and lawmakers are beginning to see child care as the public good that it has always been,” said Alycia Hardy.
A CLASP report on child care relief funding in the American Rescue Plan was mentioned in this article.
A CLASP fact sheet about the American Rescue Plan state-by-state estimates in child care funding was referenced in this article.
A CLASP fact sheet about state by state estimate for child care funding in the American Rescue Plan was referenced in this article.
This article referenced a CLASP fact sheet about the American Rescue Plan's $50 billion in refief funding for the child care sector.
Alycia Hardy on how the pandemic was an issue for women who had to leave the workforce to care for children.
While the sector received a critical down payment on relief from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) Act and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, President Biden’s American Rescue Plan offers a bold investment in child care relief, finally delivering on the promise of a total of at least $50 billion in direct relief funding.
Alycia Hardy was quoted from a panel discussion she spoke on: “Women are often the default parent when it comes to having to leave the workforce to care for children.”
Alycia Hardy on the child care crisis: “It’s so expensive because there’s been little government support for the child care system. We need to treat it as the public good that it is.”