Child Care Assistance

Many families struggle with the costs of child care and need a helping hand to afford high-quality child care to keep working.

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Coalition Action Materials | Coalition Letter and Comments on Early Learning Challenge Initiative

June 03, 2011

On June 3, 2011, members of the Child Care and Early Learning Coalition submitted a letter and comments to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and the Administration in regards to the new Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge initiative. The Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge’s goal is to incentivize states to create systems for improving the quality of early learning settings for children ages birth to five and increase disadvantaged children’s access to higher-quality early learning programs.

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Webinars & Presentations | Presentation on Child Care Assistance and School Readiness

May 20, 2011

At the 2011 National Smart Start Conference, Helen Blank and Karen Schulman presented on states’ current child care assistance policies based on NWLC’s most recent report and discussed how both these policies as well as decisions about the administration of the subsidy system are connected to ensuring that children enter school ready to succeed.

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Coalition Action Materials | Coalition Letter In Support of Early Childhood Funding for FY 2012 Appropriations

May 18, 2011

On May 18, 2011, the Child Care and Early Learning Coalition sent a sign-on letter to the chairs and ranking minority members of the Appropriations Committees and the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services in support of early childhood programs for the FY 2012 appropriations process.

A copy of the coalition sign-on letter can be downloaded below.

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Webinars & Presentations | Audio Recording and Transcript for Early Childhood: What Happened in FY 2011 CR and What's Next for FY 2012

May 02, 2011

Helen Blank from the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) discusses how the budget increases in FY 2011 affect the current gaps in child care and early learning, implementation issues around the competitive grant program to improve state early child care and education systems, and implications of the FY 2012 budget decisions for early childhood programs as well as other key supports for low-income children and families.

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Reports & Toolkits | 2011 Making Care Less Taxing: Improving State Child and Dependent Care Tax Provisions

April 14, 2011

The 2011 report on state child and dependent care tax provisions, Making Care Less Taxing, and the accompanying state report card, Making the Grade for Care, which grades those state provisions, cover the 34 child and dependent care tax provisions in effect in 28 states in tax year 2010. 

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