Sentences with phrase «child care subsidies»

While costs of living are rising, we have 40,000 families on the waiting list for child care subsidies.

This final report of a two - year evaluation is intended to help states determine how to structure child care subsidy programs.

A similar situation existed for child care assistance: Very few postdocs across all the studies received child care subsidies or had access to child care services.

His other work has included studies of financial work incentives for welfare recipients, child care subsidy policies, and programs that aim to strengthen the marriages of low - income couples.

She had been working at a dry cleaner and was accessing a county child care subsidy, but then she lost her job and the day care funding.

Topics include child care subsidies, licensing regulations, care for children with special needs, and providing family child care.

Before her promotion, she had qualified for a state - paid child care subsidy.

Next, talk to your local resource centre about how to apply for the municipal child care subsidies.

Given that those receiving child care subsidies are more likely to be poor, it is not surprising that maternal health outcomes and parenting stress were worse for this population.

A 10 % increase in public assistance, as well as the preservation of child care subsidies for low - income working families;

NCSIA assists grantees in developing child - focused, family - friendly child care subsidy systems that are fair to providers, including implementing new provisions of newly reauthorized Child Care and Development Block Grant, reaching goals related to subsidy eligibility, integrating quality and subsidy, as well as strengthening program integrity, payment rules, rate setting, and other policies and practices that support serving more low - income children in high quality care.

Given the vast cultural differences and very different approaches to social welfare programs and early childhood education programs between the United States and Norway, this study is not germane to the impact of child care subsidies in our country.

The legislature also increased money for the Training and Technical Assistance Programs by $ 300,000 and provided $ 1.3 million to increase child care subsidy rates for infants.

DHR is the lead state agency for the federal child care subsidy funds, while Bright From the Start manages the state pre-kindergarten program, the federal child nutrition program, all child care center licensing and registering of family child care homes, and the quality and infant — toddler set - asides of the state's portion of the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant.

The IDC would enhance the Facilitated Enrollment Child Care subsidy by increasing funding to $ 25 million and expanding eligibility to those within 400 percent of the Federal Poverty Line, which would increase access to a number of families, and serve approximately 2,571 additional children.

The members who benefitted from the Facilitated Enrollment Child Care subsidy program in the past are so thrilled that they can finally get some assistance with the high cost of child care.

A handful of family - centered proposals are part of the women's agenda, including investments in prekindergarten and after - school programs, increasing child care subsidies by $ 7 million, continuing the child care tax credit and requiring all new or renovated buildings with public bathrooms to be equipped with diaper changing stations.

She has written extensively about financing high quality early care and education systems, the federal child care subsidy program and its importance for low - income families, and state and local policies to create and implement high quality early childhood programs.

Vital life supports, such as child care subsidies, pre-K programs, unemployment insurance and food stamps, have been slashed.

Promotes stability and continuity of care by establishing a 12 - month authorization period for child care subsidies regardless of changes in family circumstances;

The UFT president joined many Council members who have suggested dozens of ways to find the $ 269 million needed to avert layoffs — plus the additional funds to restore child care subsidies — on both the revenue and spending sides.

Low - income, working parents and the family child care providers who take care of their kids were dealt a heavy blow when Mayor Michael Bloomberg cut child care subsidies for more than 16,500 New York City children, the single largest cut to city funding for child care since the 1970s.

Additional Child Care Subsidy (ACCS) gives extra assistance for some families with the cost of approved child care.

Early Childhood Australia commissioned a report from the Australian National University (ANU) Centre for Social Research and Methods on the effect of the Government's proposed Child Care Subsidy on children and families.

QRIS were developed in the late 1990s, in large part as a way to direct higher child care subsidy reimbursement rates to higher - quality programs.

She is the author or co-author of numerous publications, including several publications on immigrant families» access to early education, reports on the use of Title I funds for early childhood programs, and analyses of federal and state child care subsidy policies.

For the period of April 19 — September 4, 2012, Child Care subsidies inappropriately received totaled $ 255,221.36.

In the United States, low - income single parents who receive child care subsidies spend only a little less of their own money on child care than they did before receiving the subsidy, according to this study conducted by Child Trends.

In return, the state offers financial incentives and technical assistance for program improvement activities, including greater child care subsidy reimbursements for better - rated providers.

«The new Canada Child Benefit is a step in the right direction in providing benefits to low and middle income families, but could be better targeted to boost female labor force participation, including providing more generous child care subsidies to working parents,» the IMF review of Canada says.

Benefits offered: Bank of America offers 16 weeks fully paid parental leave, adoption reimbursement of $ 8,000 per child and up to $ 240 in monthly child care subsidies.

At the same time, the report backed funding of child care subsidies at an additional $ 190 million, with total spending at $ 1.166 billion.

The Independent Democratic Conference on Friday called for an increase in funding for child care subsidies along with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Stores Union.

(White Plains, NY)-- In an effort to protect child care subsidies for low - income families, the Westchester County Board of Legislators (BOL) approved new legislation and two resolutions tonight aimed at stopping County Executive Robert P. Astorino and the Westchester County Department of Social Services (DSS) from increasing the family contribution to daycare expense from 20 % to 35 % of the portion of income that exceeds the federal poverty level.

Connecticut officials say they're able to reopen applications for a state - run child care subsidy program that helps low - income working families.

Klein says the IDC will also continue to push for its own agenda, which includes paid family leave and better child care subsidies.

Child Care subsidies allow working parents to maintain gainful employment rather than being trapped in the abject poverty of welfare dependency,» said County Legislator Lyndon Williams.

Investing in child care subsidies keeps parents working and children learning — a win - win for all of us in Suffolk County now, in this challenging economy, and in the future,» said Trudy Trujillo, Group Family Child Care Provider, Central Islip.

«When families lose child care subsidies, parents face difficult choices.

Teacher layoffs would come on top of the mayor's proposal to slash child care subsidies for low - income families, which would put even more children at risk, Mulgrew said.

Democratic Legislative Minority Leader Carrie Andrews criticized the amount of money being spent toward child care subsidies.

would have increased data transparency and interagency coordination between the Texas Education Agency and Texas Workforce Commission to better track the allocation of child care subsidy dollars.

To estimate how much support your family is likely to receive from the CCS, visit the Department of Education and Training's online Family Child Care Subsidy Estimator.

CCDF allows states to serve families through a single, integrated child care subsidy program under the rules of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act.

A recent study found that the number of children served by CCDBG in 2012 fell to the lowest level since 1998, and more than 260,000 children have lost access to child care subsidies since 2006.