CLASP released a statement about the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights finding that Mississippi's state administration has blocked low-income families of color from accessing affordable child care.
On December 18, 2015, the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services proposed a new set of regulations to implement the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) reauthorization.
The U.S. House and Senate have released an omnibus funding bill for FY 2016 (the fiscal year that began on October 1). Thanks to the budget agreement made earlier in the fall, an increase in the overall discretionary budget authority allowed Congress to allocate funds for much-needed…
Child Care and Early Education Director Hannah Matthews is quoted in this story about how states are streamlining their child care assistance programs to help working families and their children.
Elizabeth Lower-Basch quoted in this story about how our nation's child care subsidy system is not meeting the needs of poor and low-income working families.
According to 2014 data on the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, states spent slightly more TANF funds on child care assistance than they did the previous year.
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Child Care and Development Block Grant. Congress has an important bit of unfinished business on this law: funding is required to meet the program's goals.