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Policies states may use to implement the new funds under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021.
To support child care through COVID and to ensure a robust recovery and an equitable economy in the future, child care requires at least $50 billion in direct public spending to support providers and families.
CLASP brief on opportunities to advocate for equitable child care policies through the state CCDF planning process.
CLASP was quoted about its child care state-by-state estimates last month.
"The Center for Law and Social Policy estimates North Carolina will receive $338,767,639 in CCDBG funds."
Quotes Christine Johnson-Staub about how California child care centers can use the federal funds from the stimulus bill.
This LAist story was originally reported on the air on KPCC, the NPR affiliate in Southern California. It quotes Kate Gallagher Robbins and cites CLASP's report on the estimated distribution to states of stimulus money for child care.
Cites CLASP's estimate of how the stimulus bill's funds for child care will be allocated among the 50 states and D.C..
Congressional leaders have finally moved forward a COVID relief package. The package includes $10 billion in Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funds dedicated to relief for the child care sector.
Our country’s existing and long-term child care crisis—inequitable access for communities of color, poverty-level wages for early educators, and unaffordable care for far too many families— has been exacerbated by the devastating, inequitable impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, which has pushed