Despite a lack of action in Congress, the ongoing childcare crisis has received bipartisan attention at the state level.
In some states the issue is partisan: Democratic Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin proposed allocating $340 million to the state’s Child Care Counts program, which distributed federal COVID-era aid, but the GOP legislature slashed funding for the program altogether in a late-night budget hearing,In North Carolina, Republicans gained a veto-proof supermajority in the North Carolina General Assembly in April thanks to a House lawmaker’s party switch.
But Cooper said the child care funding in the bill made up only a fraction of what he would consider an adequate investment in the industry — and that it shouldn’t have taken doubling down on restricting abortion to further fund child care. “I’ve asked for $1.5 billion to help with early childhood and continuing the childhood care stabilization grants, and neither the Senate nor the House budget has any significant help for that,” Cooper said. “That little bit certainly helps — it certainly should not be paired with taking away women’s reproductive freedoms, and introducing abortion bans that the people of North Carolina don’t want.
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