This brief draws on interviews with administrators in ten diverse states (CT, IL, KS, KY, NC, ND, NM, OK, OR, SC) to identify significant changes in policy and whether they are sustainable. Since CCDBG was the main federal funding stream for child care available to states to use to help families pay for child care and to improve quality of programs prior to the pandemic and will remain in place after federal resources appropriated in 2020 and 2021 must be expended, we use that lens to determine if policy changes are allowable for other states to replicate. We found important gains in the following categories: 1. Increasing the number of families eligible for assistance. 2. Reducing the burden of family copayments. 3. Paying child care providers to build their stability and based on the actual cost of care. 4. Supporting higher compensation for the workforce. (author abstract)
Sustaining child care policy gains after the pandemic emergency: What states learned
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Resource Type:
Reports & Papers
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Country:
United States
State(s)/Territories/Tribal Nation(s):
Connecticut;
Illinois;
Kansas;
Kentucky;
New Mexico;
North Carolina;
North Dakota;
Oklahoma;
Oregon;
South Carolina
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