Reauthorizing the Child Care & Development Block Grant
Although the US Congress has now passed its Inflation Reduction Act, the bill did not include many of the family supports that were initially anticipated. The bill included affordable health care coverage; however, it left out essentials like affordable child care, extension of the child tax credit, and expanding paid family leave for new parents, kinship situations and foster youth. The need for accessible, affordable child care is growing every day, and child care owners [...]