Child Care Subsidies – Missouri

Missouri looks to solve ‘low-wage trap’ for day care aid, By Jason Hancock, May 30, 2012, Kansas City Star: “For Kahtea Murrell-Bobo, the idea of getting a bump in pay is terrifying. ‘Getting a raise is supposed to be a joyous time,’ said Murrell-Bobo, a 31-year-old single mother of four from Kansas City. ‘But it could be the worst thing that ever happens to me.’ That’s because Murrell-Bobo’s children are among the roughly 50,000 in Missouri receiving state-subsidized child care – and she’s close to earning too much money to qualify. Even a small raise could mean the loss of a benefit worth thousands of dollars a month, a situation commonly referred to as the ‘low-wage trap…'”