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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.”
"In April of 2020, the Center for Law and Social Policy reported that the childcare industry will need about $10 billion per month in government support to survive the pandemic."
Kate Gallagher Robbins was interviewed by Scripps TV about the current child care crisis: “Historically, there’s lots of research that shows that when there are child care interruptions, meaning something pops up, care falls through, kids get sick and have to go home. It is almost always moms who end up bearing the brunt of those care giving interruptions."
Olivia Golden was quoted about Romney's direct cash benefit: “We shouldn’t be paying for reducing child poverty by cutting other things that help the wellbeing of low-income people."
Olivia Golden was quoted about how the Trump Administration created a damaging environment for immigrant communities.
"Pronita Gupta, the director of job quality at the Center for Law and Social Policy, points out that women are now either the sole or co-breadwinner in 64 percent of families, and that share is even higher in families led by women of color."
"A recent study published by the Center for Law and Social Policy, a nonpartisan research group that advocates for low-income people, found that about one in 10 workers were underemployed in 2016, double the number the BLS reported at the time."
"In September 800,000 educators in the public sector were forced from their jobs, due to COVID, according to the Center For Law and Social Policy November Jobs report."
“Many of the expenses families face are month-to-month, so having a reliable month-to-month source of income will help families stay afloat,” says Ashley Burnside, a policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP).
CLASP was quoted about its child care state-by-state estimates last month.