More GOP lawmakers embrace child care spending
More Republican lawmakers in states around the U.S. are getting behind the idea of using taxpayer money to subsidize child care.
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More GOP lawmakers embrace child care spending
More Republican lawmakers in states around the U.S. are getting behind the idea of using taxpayer money to subsidize child care.
Source: thetandd.com
More Republicans back spending on child care, saying it's an economic issue
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.
Source: yahoo.com
Republican states are backing child care spending, saying it can ease workforce shortages by helping parents go back to work
"Child care is a critical infrastructure."
Source: fortune.com
More Republicans treating child care as workforce issue, supporting higher spending
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.
Source: foxnews.com