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March 14-20: Celebrating the Child and Adult Care Food Program
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Child Care Providers Get Billions in Covid-19 Relief Law
Wall Street Journal The coronavirus relief law signed by President Biden last week pours nearly $50 billion into child care in a bid to keep struggling daycare centers from closing just as the people who rely on them return to work. Child-care provi...
CDC updates safety guidelines for child care centers as many struggle to stay in business
MarketWatch The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released updated guidance Friday providing strategies to help child care operators offer in-person care safely. Though some child care providers closed at the outset of the pandemic, ma...
Congress greenlights a $40 billion bailout for the child-care industry
CNBC.com With the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act on Wednesday, American families and child-care providers can look forward to a roughly $40 billion infusion for an industry rocked with closures and dramatically increased operating costs amid the ...
CCAoA Statement in Response to Congress Passing American Rescue Plan
Today, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package with $39 billion in child care relief funding. The $39 billion in dedicated child care funding provides $15 billion for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CC...
Introducing: The Child Care Emergency Planning Video Series
Ensuring children’s health and safety in child care is the top concern for any child care program, and child care emergency preparedness is vital to meeting this need. One way providers can strengthen sa...
Building Brains with Books! Kick off National Reading Month on March 2
Get ready to read! March is National Reading Month, and children across America will kick off the month-long celebration starting Tuesday, March 2 - National Read Across America Day. Whether you’re planning one big Read Across America Day celebration or...
Child Care Aware® of America Supports the Raise the Wage Act
Child Care Aware® of America (CCAoA) recently joined over 300 local, state and national organizations in support of the Raise the Wage Act of 2021. The Raise the Wage Act of 2021 would: Incrementally raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour b...
Important Updates to the Paycheck Protection Program for Small Businesses
In December 2020, Congress funded a new Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The new PPP is more flexible than the original and allows prior PPP loan recipients to apply for a second loan under certain ...
Covering the Pandemic Child Care Crisis
The Educated Reporter (Education Writers Association blog) “COVID really just highlighted the pre-existing situations and challenges of the early childhood system across the nation,” said Dionne Dobbins, the senior director of research at Child Care ...
