Expiration of Pandemic-Era Funding Threatens to Devastate US Child Care Industry

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If child care legislation isn’t passed soon, the funding cliff could decimate care sites and erase decades of progress.

that some states may lose under 10,000 slots, while Texas and New York could count losses in the hundreds of thousands.

“Many researchers and advocates thought maybe Americans were seeing for the first time that the child care industry actuallygovernment subsidy, even in a good economic climate,” said Henly. And for a while, “a lot of people thought child care would be funded [as part of Build Back Better] in some form. It didn’t happen.” After that chance at reform was dashed, Henly said, “A lot of people were hoping [the ARPA funds] might continue [because] they ended up really helping providers stay afloat.

 

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