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Christine Johnson-Staub outlines six opportunities for states to advance equity in the recently released ARPA child care stabilization grant guidance.
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.
In this policy brief, Christine Johnson-Staub and national partners address the need to invest federal dollars in facility infrastructure for child care providers.
Stephanie Schmit was quoted in this article about the reintroduced Child Care for Working Families Act.
On April 6, 2021, CLASP and ZERO TO THREE co-hosted a webinar on supporting young children and their families with the American Rescue Plan Act.
"The Center for Law and Social Policy has said that funds from the latest federal pandemic relief bill, called the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, can be used for salaries, rent, maintenance, personal protective equipment and COVID-related supplies."
Christine Johnson-Staub was quoted about the American Rescue Plan's $39 billion funding toward the child care industry.
In this audio segment, Christine Johnson-Staub was quoted about how $40 billion in child care funding would help stabilize child care programs and make the system stronger going forward.
The American Rescue Plan, which passed Congress on March 10 and will be signed by President Biden upon receipt, includes several critical supports for families related to nutrition, child poverty, health care, mental health, and more.
Policies states may use to implement the new funds under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021.