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CLASP was mentioned about how the American Rescue Plan "potentially stands to halve child poverty in the United States."
“No child should have to worry where her next meal will come from or whether she will have a place to sleep each night in the wealthiest nation on earth.”
“No child should have to worry where her next meal will come from or whether she will have a place to sleep each night in the wealthiest nation on earth.”
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.”
On March 3rd, 2021, Tiffany Ferrette and the NWLC presented on investing in child care as a public good.
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.”
Under the American Rescue Plan, President Biden expanded the existing child tax credit (CTC) and made it fully refundable, both increasing the benefits families receive and allowing families to receive increments of the benefit monthly. Now we need to make it permanent.
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."