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Learning from the Military Child Care System
It’s Memorial Day Weekend and a time to celebrate and remember those who died in service to our country – over a million men and women who have died since the Civil War protecting our people and...
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Policies that Work for Working Families
Each week, nearly 11 million children under age 5 are in some type of child care setting for an average of 35 hours. It’s a statistic that gets mentioned often in conversations about the importance of...
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It’s Time to Fix Child Care – Reauthorization Bill Introduced in Senate
Last week, Senator Mikulski (D-MD), Senator Burr (R-NC), Senator Harkin (D-IA), and Senator Alexander (R-TN) introduced a bill to reauthorize the Child Care and Development Block Grant, the primary...
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It Takes a Village – Rally4Babies Highlights Need to Invest in Early Childhood
“The African saying, that it takes a village to raise a child is true, but the thing we need to remember all the time is that we are that village, it’s not somebody else, each one of us are part of the...
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Florida On-Site Advocacy
Earlier this week, members of the Child Care Aware® of America Policy Team jumped on a plane and went to Tampa for a one-day on-site Advocacy Training. They worked closely with the Children’s Forum in...
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Child Care Aware of America Bids Farewell to 2013 Summer Policy Interns
This past week, Child Care Aware of America bid farewell to our two 2013 Summer Policy Interns, Lester Asamoah and Audrey Williams. Lester and Audrey spent the past eight weeks working closely with...
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5 Tips for Recess SUCCESS!
It’s that time of year again–August recess! Congress has adjourned for the month of August and will not be back in session until September 9. During their month-long recess, many Members take the...
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CCDBG Moving Forward – Helpful Resources on the New Law
With the signing of S.1086, the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 into law, now the focus will shift to ensuring that those across the country which these changes will directly impact,...
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BREAKING: President Obama Announces Landmark Child Care Proposal
Fresh off the State of the Union, President Obama announced a landmark proposal to help all working families with young children afford child care. The full Fact Sheet from the White House on the new...
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Congress Approves Temporary Funding Measure, Continues to Work on Final FY...
Earlier today, Congress approved a short-term continuing resolution (CR) keeping the Federal government funded through December 11. The CR includes no spending cuts to any domestic programs and,...
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