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More Republican lawmakers in states around the U.S. are getting behind the idea of using taxpayer money to subsidize child care.

More Republican lawmakers in states around the U.S. are getting behind the idea of using taxpayer money to subsidize child care.

Like a lot of mothers, North Dakota state Rep. Emily O'Brien struggled to find infant care when her daughter Lennon was born in 2019. Not long after, O'Brien persuaded her colleagues to back a plan to invest $66 million in child care, an unprecedented sum for a state that had, like others with Republican leadership, long resisted such spending. Republicans historically have been lukewarm about using taxpayer money for child care, even as they have embraced prekindergarten.

"Child care is a critical infrastructure."

More Republicans across the U.S. are supporting increased spending to subsidize child care costs after the pandemic illuminated the industry's fragility and its importance to parents.

Jim Goodell is editor and lead author of the Learning Engineering toolkit, co-author of “Student-Centered Learning: Functional Requirements for Integrated Systems to Optimize Learning” and a thought leader in the world of learning engineering and data standards. He is Director of Innovation at Quality Information Partners, where he helps lead development of the US Department of Education sponsored Common Education Data Standards. He is Chair of the IEEE Lea...

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Republican state lawmakers are warming to the idea of using taxpayer money to invest in child care. The change comes as pandemic relief funding that supported child care dries up.

More Republican lawmakers in states around the U.S. are getting behind the idea of using taxpayer money to subsidize child care. The pandemic became a turning point by underscoring how

More Republican lawmakers in states around the U.S. are getting behind the idea of using taxpayer money to subsidize child care. The pandemic became a turning point by underscoring how