Hi,

Federal funding for child care EXPIRED on September 30th. Funding from the
American Rescue Plan (ARP) invested in over 70,000 child care centers
supporting 3.2 million kids and their families, but the ARP funding lapsed
last month.

Now, GOP dysfunction, obstruction, and efforts to slash social services
has put these 70,000 child care centers at risk of closing.^1 Families
across the country could now lose their child care.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: Tell Congress to reinstate critical child care
funding immediately!

ADD YOUR NAME

As Senator Elizabeth Warren put it before the GOP nearly shutdown the
government trying to slash the social safety net, “Federal child care
funding is about to take a nose dive off a cliff” if we allow this relief
to expire without doing anything about it.^2

But Republicans allowed funding to fall off the cliff, cutting funds that
could lead to millions of children losing child care and parents across
the country being left in an impossible situation.

Currently, the child care industry is short by more than 50,000 workers,
and over 3 million children are without access to child care due to
unavailable slots.^3 That number will go up now that the GOP has allowed
child care funding to lapse. Child care is already too expensive. The
industry is already broken. Now, Republicans are breaking the child care
industry even more.

This is a clear choice between supporting care for children and leaving
families out to dry. Senator Warren and Democrats are fighting for
families and the GOP is working to make it even harder to access child
care.

[ [link removed] ]Add your name: Pass emergency child care funding now! Ensure that
parents aren’t forced out of the workforce because of lack of childcare.

Thanks for taking action,

Tihi and the team at Demand Progress

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Sources:

 1. Coalition on Human Needs, “If We Let Critical Child Care Stabilization
Funding Expire, Things Are Only Going To Get Worse,” [ [link removed] ]September 15,
2023.
 2. CNN, “Opinion: America’s child care crisis is about to get a lot
worse,” [ [link removed] ]August 9, 2023.
 3. The 19th, “1 in 4 parents report being fired for work interruptions
due to child care breakdowns,” [ [link removed] ]February 2, 2023.
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