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CLASP's testimony in response to the Ways and Means Committee's hearing on April 21, 2021 on Paid Leave and Child Care.
A CLASP report on child care relief funding in the American Rescue Plan was mentioned in this article.
Kate Gallagher Robbins was quoted: “Infrastructure is the thing that makes our country a place where families can thrive, people can go to work."
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.
Katherine Gallagher Robbins on the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan: "This is a transformative bill for families."
This article referenced a CLASP fact sheet about the American Rescue Plan's $50 billion in refief funding for the child care sector.
“One of the things we know families really struggle with is affordability,” said Katherine Gallagher Robbins, director for child care and early education at the Center for Law and Social Policy. “That's also an important part of the picture here.”
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.
Katherine Gallagher Robbins was quoted about child care centers and in-home providers: “It’s hard to track. You could be in someone’s home, in a bigger center, on a military base.”