Education

What States Can do to Help College Students Get Child Care Support

From New America: “The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) is currently the country’s best answer to this child care crisis. The federal program helps make child care more affordable for low-income families, including student parents. Unfortunately, CCDF’s funding level only allows it to help a small minority of eligible families. The mismatch between families who need help and CCDF funding hits college students hard. In 2018, around 110,000 student-parent families received child care assistance—only around 13 percent of the students were estimated to be eligible.”

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