The Home GOP continues to threaten a authorities shutdown that might harm households throughout the nation, and ship the U.S. proper over the childcare cliff.
This report was initially revealed by The Century Basis.
Starting Sept. 30, 2023, states will face a steep dropoff in federal childcare funding. With out congressional motion, this cliff may have dire penalties.
Greater than 3 million youngsters are projected to lose entry to childcare nationwide, and 70,000 childcare applications are more likely to shut. This may have ripple results for folks compelled out of labor or to chop their work hours, for companies who will lose helpful staff or expertise the impression of their staff’ childcare disruptions, and state economies that may lose tax income and jobs within the childcare sector because of this.
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Julie Kashen is director of ladies’s financial justice and a senior fellow at The Century Basis, a number one progressive assume tank. She is without doubt one of the nation’s main consultants on the problems affecting working households, having authored quite a few research on childcare, paid go away, equal pay and different subjects.
Laura Valle Gutierrez is a fellow at The Century Basis, the place she works on financial coverage and analysis to advertise financial, incapacity, racial and gender justice.
Lea Woods is a coverage affiliate within the girls’s financial justice division at The Century Basis the place her work focuses on a variety of points, together with paid household go away and baby care. Previous to becoming a member of The Century Basis, Lea labored for the Financial Evaluation and Analysis Community (EARN) on the Financial Coverage Institute (EPI), the place she organized conferences and convenings for state-level assume tanks and advocacy teams. She has labored in fundraising and communications at nonprofits that promote girls’s financial safety and political energy, together with the Institute for Ladies’s Coverage Analysis and the Middle for Ladies’s Management. Extra political expertise consists of interning in a congressional workplace and dealing on a gubernatorial reelection marketing campaign.
Jessica Milli is a examine director at Institute for Ladies’s Coverage Analysis and a scholar in residence at American College.