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Melanie Bavaria, Chalkbeat Philadelphia January 26, 2021
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his office in Harrisburg, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
This article originally appeared on Chalkbeat Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania child care providers, advocates, and key legislators renewed pleas to Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration last week to release $302 million in federal aid but change how it is distributed to child care centers.
Every week, child care centers are being forced to lay off workers or face closure due to soaring costs and a state subsidy system that abruptly changed in September, decimating their finances.
We re almost one week into the Biden administration, and already there are a slew of changes. I mean, the president signed 17 executive orders in his first hours in office alone.
To help make sense of it all, we asked WBUR reporters to dig into key issues of importance to Massachusetts: what changes are (or may be) coming under the Biden administration, and what they re watching out for in the weeks to come.
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