Child Care Assistance

The National Women's Law Center's 8th annual review of key child care subsidy policies in all fifty states and the District of Columbia reveals that families were worse off in 37 states than they were in 2010 under one or more child care assistance policies. These 51 fact sheets explain the state of child care assistance in individual states and the District of Columbia.

Read the full transcript of Early Child Hood Update: Funding and Reauthorization Prospects. Helen Blank from the National Women's Law Center (NWLC), Adele Robinson from the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Hannah Matthews from CLASP, and Harriet Dichter from the First Five Years Fund provided an overview of the FY 2012 and FY 2013 budgets, reauthorization of ESEA and CCDBG, and Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge grants.