Money for Illinois child care subsidies is running dry, By Nancy Cambria, February 25, 2015, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “For more than two decades, the Leslie Bates Davis Neighborhood House’s early childhood center has beat back the effects of poverty on young children in this ailing city. The center operates in a once abandoned grocery store amid boarded-up businesses and crumbling sidewalks with the promise of the Gateway Arch in view from its parking lot. With the help of federal and state funds as well as fundraising, it has grown in size, quality and staffing to host a Head Start program and earn national accreditation. It serves nearly 150 children from some of the nation’s poorest households — with parents who count on the center to provide more than mere baby-sitting. ‘They know how important it is their children get early education so they are ready for school,’ said Stephanie Rhodes, a vice president with Leslie Bates Davis in charge of child care. As of this month, however, all of the progress made by the center and many others in Illinois is at risk…”
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Child Care Subsidies – Oregon
New federal child care rules, meant to help families, could also harm them, says Oregon audit, By Amy Wang, January 5, 2014, The Oregonian: “As Oregon works to meet new federal rules meant to expand access to child care and improve its educational quality, the Oregon Secretary of State’s office and others are raising concerns that the families who most need stable and affordable child care could lose it as a result of those same rules. The rules are part of the recently reauthorized federal Child Care and Development Block Grant Act, which helps fund child care subsidies for lower-income families…”
Child Care Subsidies
Child care subsidies for low-income parents approved after years of cuts, By Diana Dillaber Murray, November 19, 2014, Oakland Daily Tribune: “For the first time in 18 years, Congress has approved funding to help ensure parents of some of the 11 million of the youngest children in low-income working families can afford child care. Congress reauthorized the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act 2014 Tuesday in a bipartisan vote. About 6 million children of the 11 million children in child care are babies and toddlers…”