Advocates framed the Tri-Share model as an investment for CT employers to improve child care affordability while boosting retention and more.
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Will Lamont’s universal pre-K plan prevail?
A bill could allow children to attend preschool for free or at a radically reduced cost. But many elements of the program are still unclear.
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Child care is center of governor’s human services budget
Lamont’s budget invests in universal preschool but does not meet the needs of other nonprofits, like food banks and homelessness providers.
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CT program that provides child care, housing to homeless families will grow
The Head Start on Housing pilot program, which provides housing vouchers to those who are eligible, will help 50 new CT families next year.
Posted inEconomic Development
CT child care ‘incubator’ is building capacity, stability in sector
Other states and towns in CT are looking to replicate New Britain YWCA’s first-of-its-kind model that supports child care entrepreneurs.
Posted inMoney
Lamont’s CT budget plan falls short of social service providers’ requests
The plan lacks the financial investments that CT social service advocates say are necessary to reverse years of financial neglect.
Posted inEconomic Development
Child care, preschool slots for CT children are dropping, report says
The CT Voices report says slots for infant and toddler care are down and preschool slots dropped to the lowest number since at least 2005.
Posted inGovernment
Biden seeks $107M for child care in CT amid fears of closures
Rep. Rosa DeLauro said federal funding is vital to give providers better pay and defray costs for families since pandemic funds ended.
Posted inEconomic Development
For this CT business, ‘workforce housing’ is actually working
Amid CT’s housing shortage, one employer found a quicker way to remedy the problem: purchasing property and housing its staff for free.
Posted inEconomic Development
CT leaders want companies to contribute to child care. Here’s how.
Lawmakers expanded the governor’s proposed 25% business tax credit for child care costs to go toward donations to nonprofit providers.
Posted inPolitics
Child care funding, a top CT priority, stripped from Biden bill
CT Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal hope to insert at least some child care investments into the bill over the weekend.
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National child care director gets an earful on industry challenges
Parents and child care operators complained about both the lack of affordable, quality care and the difficulty of finding qualified staff.
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State’s childcare subsidy program receives long awaited funding increase
The $14 million in new federal funds will be dispersed to an estimated 1,200 centers with families who rely on Care 4 Kids certificates to pay for child care.
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More residents above poverty line can’t cover basic costs in CT, report says
Elizabeth Yates and her 2-year-old son are among the 538,529 households in Connecticut that could not afford basic needs such as housing, child care, food, transportation, health care,and technology in 2016. This group constitutes 40 percent of the households in the state, according to a new report released by The United Way of Connecticut.
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Child care funding: A choice between the struggling and destitute
On Tuesday morning, in a room at the state Capitol complex, a single small number seemed to tell its own story about the fiscal bind legislators are likely to find themselves in over and over again this session.