“Impacted families, child care providers, and organizers  across the country have  been pushing for emergency action to replenish the child care funding that expired in 2023,” said Andrea Palusa and Erica Gallegos, Co-Directors of the Child Care for Every Family Network. “We’re so glad to see the Biden Administration renew their request for $16 billion in emergency child care funding. Our kids, families, early educators, and economy can’t continue to function in crisis. 

Congress must act now to provide these urgently-needed resources to stabilize our current child care system and continue to work with us to create a new system that has robust and permanent funding and centers families, kids, and providers who are Black, brown, Indigenous, and/or people of color. We know from recent polling that 73% of all voters support a totally redesigned child care system that guarantees free care for every family and good wages and benefits for providers. All eyes are on Congress, especially the House Republicans who have thus far obstructed progress. We need this emergency funding to move forward without delay.”

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