GoLocalWorcester | Senators Warren and Smith Secure $40B For Child Care & Early Learning in Senate COVID-19 Relief Pack
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren Saturday, United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) successfully secured more than $40 billion for child care and early learning resources in the Senate-passed COVID-19 relief package. With the funding from the package passed today, $10 billion from the December-passed relief bill, and the $3.5 billion provided in the CARES Act, Senators Warren and Smith have made good on their push to secure $50 billion for child care. "Right now, child care providers are struggling to keep their doors open while a pandemic and economic crisi...