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Child Care Funding Cliff at One Year: Rising Prices, Shrinking Options, and Families Squeezed

24 Sep 2024

Executive Summary This report looks at how five states are faring 1 in light of the child care stabilization cliff. 2 As expected, child care prices are rising, child care supply is not growing, programs are shutting down, and many families are being impacted by the combination of not being able to find or afford child care options. This is not new. The historic lack of investment in child care and early learning has created this ongoing challenge for families, which was made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. The unprecedented pandemic-relief child care funding mitigated some of those challenges, and showed just how important public investments in child care are. Now, states are attempting to maintain the status quo, and, in some cases, make more robust investments that are leading to progress.

Authors

Julie Kashen, Laura Valle-Gutierrez

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Pages
21
Published in
United States of America

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