Legislative Action Center

Make Your Voice Heard and Sign-On To Ask Congress to Increase Federal Child Care Funding
We are advocating for greater investments in federal child care funding and we need your organization to join us in signing a letter to encourage the Pennsylvania delegation to support the increase.  To allow for an increase in child care funding, it is essential that our delegation support an overall increase in the budgetary caps on domestic spending and a proportionate increase in funding to the Labor-Health and Human Services-Education appropriations bill. We are taking organizational sign-ons. If you are authorized to sign-on for your organization, please click through to the letter.

Child Care Action Day

• What is happening?
  Gov. Wolf proposed a $27 million funding increase for child care. Now we need the General Assembly to support it as the state budget for fiscal year 2018-19 is finalized.
   
• Why does it matter?
  The governor’s investment would allow more families to access child care subsidies they need to work and support quality child care for children through tiered reimbursement rate increases. As a provider, you know firsthand the difference high-quality care makes in the life of a child and their family. But, you also know the child care system is significantly underfunded and we need increased investments to improve it.

• Lower child care costs for low-income and middle-income families to a maximum of seven percent of household income through a sliding scale, regardless of how many children they have.
• Support universal access to high-quality preschool programs for all low- and middle-income three- and four-year-olds
• Significantly improve compensation and training for the child care workforce to ensure that our nation’s teachers and caregivers have the support they need.
• Improve the quality of child care by ensuring that funding is available to enable providers to maintain high standards.