3.2 million children could lose access to child care if Congress lets pandemic-era funding expire. This would be a disaster for families and the economy.
. Through advocacy, we also saved the pandemic-era grant program Great Start Compensation Supports, and it will now be a permanent ongoing fund for hiring and retaining early childhood educators.able to encourage people to enter the early childhood field and retain them because they can pay them closer to the wages they deserve. This allows providers to honor the people who care for the most vulnerable among us.
We also worked closely with many other organizations across Minnesota in the early childhood space, coalescing around the recommendations of the Great Start for All Minnesota Children Task Force which came out in February. The recommendations make it explicit that, to have the child care system all Minnesotans deserve, child care needs funding to make it accessible and affordable for every family, high quality for every child and a sustainable career with living wages for educators.
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