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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.
CLASP summarizes the planned uses of CRRSA funding by each state as described in 60 Day Reports newly released by the federal Office of Child Care.
While the sector received a critical down payment on relief from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) Act and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, President Biden’s American Rescue Plan offers a bold investment in child care relief, finally delivering on the promise of a total of at least $50 billion in direct relief funding.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Child care is an essential part of our economy, preparing children for the future and enabling parents and caregivers to work, all while employing a large workforce.
The bipartisan Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which was passed by Congress and enacted on March 27, 2020, includes resources specifically targeted to individuals and families with low incomes affected by the public health and economic crises. This fact sheet describes key provisions, considerations, and action steps for how state child care agencies can make the most of resources provided through the Act.