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Child care crisis deepens as funding slashed for poor families The first hint of trouble for McKinley Hess came in August. Hess, who runs an infant and toddler care program in Conway, Arkansas, heard that the teen moms she serves were having trouble getting their expected child care assistance payments. Funded by a mix of federal and state dollars, those subsidies are the only way many low-income parents nationwide can afford child care, by reimbursing providers for care and lowering the amount parents have to pay themselves. In Arkansas, teen parents have long been given priority to receive this aid. But now, Hess heard, they and many other families in need were sitting on a… https://hechingerreport.org/child-care-crisis-deepens-as-funding-slashed-for-poor-families/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social