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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.
The impact of the pandemic on child care has already been extensive, and the system is struggling to survive. The federal government should allocate $50 billion in relief funds for child care in the next coronavirus package.
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) is another step forward in providing economic relief to families, workers, and businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
CLASP estimates that a $5 billion increase in FY2021 will enable states to provide child care assistance to as many as 646,000 more children. This factsheet estimates how a $5 billion in FY2021 could be allocated among the states and how many additional children each state could serve.
In the final FY2020 Appropriations Bill, Congress increased by $550 million its investment in the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), the largest source of federal funding for child care.
The House and Senate have proposed investing dramatically different amounts into the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG). This factsheet is our state-by-state analysis of the number of children served by these starkly different CCDBG investments.
According to our estimates, a $2.4 billion increase would enable states to provide an additional 301,000 children with child care assistance. In this factsheet we estimate how a $2.4 billion CCDBG increase would be disbursed among the states and how many additional children each state would be able to serve.
This is an overview of our Moving on Maternal Depression (MOMD) initiative. Through MOMD, CLASP is collaborating with states to advance policies that improve maternal depression prevention, screening, and treatment among mothers with young children.
This Q&A is a companion piece to CLASP's webinar Place and Race Matter: Head Start and CCDBG Access by Race, Ethnicity, and Location.
This fact sheet explains methodology for CLASP's Disparate Access report.