Dems Want Voucher Funding as Counties Pause Child Care Assistance Program

Dems want voucher funding as counties pause Child Care Assistance Program

Democratic Assemblymembers and childcare advocates are urging Governor Kathy Hochul to fully fund vouchers and raise wages for childcare workers statewide, as 35 counties outside of New York City have stopped accepting new applications for the state's Child Care Assistance Program due to lack of funding.

Child Care Voucher Applications Are Closed in 35 New York Counties…

More than half of New York counties have stopped enrolling eligible families in the state’s child care voucher program as of mid-March amid a funding crisis that has persisted for over a year, new data shows. Thirty-five counties and New York City have had to close applications for the program, which subsidizes nearly the entire cost of private child care for low- and middle-income families. Twenty-one of them are keeping waitlists; New York Cit…

Child Care Voucher Applications Are Closed in 35 New York Counties and NYC

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