HiMama’s position on the childcare funding cliff
OCTOBER 4th 2023
Over this past weekend in the United States, billions of dollars in emergency funding that were allocated to child care during the pandemic were allowed to expire. The impact of this “child care funding cliff” and the associated impending rollbacks will disproportionately affect lower-income families, particularly mothers, leaving tens of thousands of centers at risk for closing and over 3 million children and their families without care. To say that we are extremely concerned about the well-being of children, families, and the dedicated child care providers that serve them is a true understatement.
At HiMama, we feel privileged to support the early childhood workforce as they provide loving, nurturing, high-quality early care and education to young children. We strongly believe that all childcare providers deserve fair wages that reflect the critical importance of their work. All families deserve access to high-quality early childhood programs, which decades of research have proven help prepare children for school readiness and future success. We urge our elected officials to recognize the funding expiration as the emergency that it is, and work quickly toward a bi-partisan solution that makes high-quality childcare accessible and affordable for all families, not just some.
