25 Ohio organizations signed onto a letter from the National Women’s Law Center to Congressional leaders calling on Congress to pass $16 billion a year in emergency child care funding.
Twenty-five Ohio organizations signed onto a letter from the National Women’s Law Center to Congressional leaders calling on Congress to pass $16 billion a year in emergency child care funding. Currently, ARPA child care funding is set to expire on Saturday.CLEVELAND, Ohio - Twenty-five Ohio organizations have signed a letter with nearly 1,000 other state and national organizations in urging Congress to approve spending $16 billion annually in emergency child care funding.
Without ARPA funding, there will be only the Child Care and Development Block Grant Program, which provides subsidies to help low-income families pay for care. That funding expires next September. “Given that programs have long been burdened and long struggled and families have long struggled with the costs of child care in addition to their other expenses for necessities, we could see a real impact over time,” says Schulman.
Even before the ARPA stabilization funding came, some child care providers had difficulty hiring staff. “Families are really choosing not to enroll their children in preschool because of the affordability,” says Jeni Hoover, director at Kendal Early Learning Center in Oberlin. “And we know that when kids enter kindergarten behind, they stay behind.”
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