Child Care and Early Education Director Hannah Matthews is quoted in this story about how states are streamlining their child care assistance programs to help working families and their children.
Elizabeth Lower-Basch quoted in this story about how our nation's child care subsidy system is not meeting the needs of poor and low-income working families.
According to 2014 data on the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, states spent slightly more TANF funds on child care assistance than they did the previous year.
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Child Care and Development Block Grant. Congress has an important bit of unfinished business on this law: funding is required to meet the program's goals.
The Continuing Resolution marks an ominous start to the fiscal year for crucial services that can help hard-working poor and low-income people lift themselves and their families to economic security.
CCDBG is the primary funding source for federal child care subsidies to low-income working families, as well as for improving child care quality. This fact sheet highlights key data about infants and toddlers served by CCDBG.
CCDBG is the primary funding source for federal child care subsidies to low-income working families, as well as for improving child care quality. This fact sheet highlights key data about preschool-age children served by CCDBG.
CCDBG is the primary funding source for federal child care subsidies to low-income working families, as well as for improving child care quality. This fact sheet highlights key information about school-age children in CCDBG.