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of child care is the greatest barrier low-income families face in finding quality care for their
children. Under my Administration, federal funding for child care has more than doubled, and
the 1996 welfare reform law increased child care funding by $4 billion to provide child care
assistance to families moving from welfare to work and other low-income families. However,
these new findings demonstrate that still too many working families are struggling with the
high cost of child care and that we must do more to ensure America's families have access to
quality child care they can afford so they can balance their responsibilities both at work and at
home.
Two months ago, we reached a bipartisan agreement with Congress to provide an $817
million increase for the Child Care and Development Block Grant program, bringing funding
to $2 billion. This increase would enable the program to provide child care subsidies for
nearly 200,000 more children. With these new resources, combined with the child care funds
provided as part of welfare reform, the program could serve more than 2.1 million children in
2001, an increase of nearly 1 million since 1997. We are still meeting only a fraction of the
need, but this is a critical step forward. I urge Congress to heed the message of these reports
and complete their work by to
increaseing funding for affordable, quality child care. America's working families should not
have to wait any longer.
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