Child Care

Background

Background on Child Care

Latest News

NWLC: New Census Data Show that Low-Income Families Need Help Paying for Child Care (2/28/08)
HNR: House Cuts $38.8 Billion from Budget; Slashes Health Care, Student Loans, Child Support and Help for People with Disabilities (2/3/06)
WashPost: GOP Leaders Agree to $41.6 Billion Spending Cut (12/19/05)
HNR: House and Senate to Attempt Passing a Final Bill Cutting Aid to Poor (12/9/05)
HNR: Labor-HHS-Education Bill Must Clear One Last Hurdle (12/9/05)
NYTimes Ed: Profiles in Pusillanimity (12/6/05)

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Policy Analyses and Research

NWLC: Getting Organized: Unionizing Home-Based Child Care Providers (June 2010)
NWLC: Supporting State Child Care Efforts with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funds (April 2010)
NWLC: An Expanded and Refundable Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit Would Help Make Child Care More Affordable for Million of Families (November 2009)
NWLC: State Child Care Assistance Policies 2009: Most States Hold the Line, but Some Lose Ground in Hard Times (September 2009)
CLASP: Tracking American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Spending (September 2009)
CLASP: Charting Progress for Babies in Child Care - State Examples (2009)

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Government Resources

U.S. Census Bureau: 2005 Child Care Costs Data (2/28/08)
Summary and Status of Public Law 109-171 - formerly S. 1932/H.R. 4241 "Deficit Reduction Act" (signed into law 2/8/06) This law reauthorizes the welfare program and provides $1 billion in additional child care funds
Status and text of H.R. 3010 the Fiscal 2006 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act (signed into law 12/30/05)
Status and text of H.R. 4241 "Deficit Reduction Act" (The budget reconciliation bill approved by the House 11/18/05)
Senate Appropriations Committee: S. Rept. 109-103 Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations Bill for FY 2006 (7/14/05)
House Appropriations Committee: H. Rept. 109-143 Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations Bill for FY 2006 (6/21/05)

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