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    "ocrText": "PRESIDENT CLINTON CALLS ON CONGRESS TO FINISH THEIR WORK TO HELP\nWORKING FAMILIES MEET THEIR NEED FOR CHILD CARE\nDecember 6, 2000 (??)\nToday, President Clinton will release two reports showing that low-income working families are\nstruggling with the high cost of child care and federal child care subsidies fall far short of\nmeeting the demand of eligible families. The President will also use the opportunity to again call\non Congress to finish the work it has left undone for nearly two months, work that included an\n$817 million increase in federal child care subsidies and a $1 billion increase in Head Start.\nAmerica's working families should not have to wait any longer to have access to affordable,\nquality child care for their children.\nQUALITY CHILD CARE IS TOO EXPENSIVE FOR MOST LOW-INCOME\nWORKING FAMILIES: The President will release a report by the Children's Defense Fund,\nwhich shows that the cost of child care is the greatest barrier low-income families face in finding\nquality child care for their children, care families rely on to enable them to work and to provide\nearly education experiences for their children. In fact, the report points out that the average cost\nof child care for a 4-year old in an urban area is more than the average annual cost of public\ncollege tuition. This high cost provides little choice for low-income families, forcing many\nfamilies to choose lower-cost and often lower-quality care for their children.\nCHILD CARE SUBSIDIES ARE WORKING, BUT MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE: The\nPresident will also release an interim report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human\nServices, which is part of a five-year research effort to explore how states and communities\nimplement policies and programs to meet the child care needs of families moving from welfare\nto work. This report shows that in the three-years since the enactment of the Personal\nResponsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, states have provided child care to\n[hundreds of thousands??] more children. In fact, 12 of the 15 states studied experienced over\n30 percent growth in the number of children receiving child care subsidies. The report\ndemonstrates, however, that even with this increased investment in child care there remains a\nsignificant unmet need for child care subsidies - most states were only serving 15-20 percent of\neligible children from all federal and state sources.\nCONGRESS SHOULD FINISH ITS BUSINESS IN SUPPORT OF AMERICA'S\nCHILDREN AND FAMILIES: Today, the President urged Congress to finish their work to\nensure that America's hardest working families have access to affordable, quality child care.\nBefore Congress left town two months ago, they had reached a bipartisan agreement with the\nClinton Administration to provide an $817 million increase for the Child Care and Development\nBlock Grant to bring it to $2 billion. This increase would enable the program to provide child\ncare subsidies for nearly 150,000 more children in 2001. With these new resources, combined\nwith the child care funds provided in welfare reform, the program could serve over 2.2 million\nchildren in 2001, an increase of nearly 1 million since 1997. The Child Care and Development\nBlock Grant is the primary federal effort to help low-income families pay for child care, helping\nlow-income parents to work. The final negotiations with Congress also included $272 million\nfor improving the quality of child care, $100 million of which must be used to improve the\nquality of infant and toddler care; $10 million for child care research; and $19 million for school-\naged care and to improve information for parents about child care in their communities."
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