Toward a Decade of Indifference: Administration Budget Ignores Child Care Needs of Working Families

Publication Date: February 2006

Publisher: Center for Law and Social Policy

Author(s): Hannah Matthews; Danielle Ewen

Research Area: Social conditions

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Child care assistance is critical to helping low-income working families succeed and find quality child care that fosters their children's well-being and healthy development. Yet the President's 2007 budget proposal, released on February 6, 2006, freezes discretionary child care funding for the fifth consecutive year.

The result will be a 25 percent drop in the number of children from low-income working families who get help paying for child care by 2011, as compared with 2000 numbers.