Child Care for Low-Income Families Summary of Two Workshops (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Child Care and Economic Sufficiency
Child Care and Economic Sufficiency
Pages 28-33
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Others, faced with the pressures to control public costs that typically accompany welfare reform initiatives, tend to think in terms of the minimum amount that can be done so that child care problems do not interfere with the primary, adult-orientec3 aims of reform initiatives. Beyond the welfare context, much of the evidence discussed at the workshop indicated that employed, single mothers who are poor or near poverty face particular hardships in their efforts to combine work and 28
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at the workshop indicates that afforciable child care is a decisive factor in promoting work effort among low-income mothers. The General Accounting Office released a study in December 1994, presenter!
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2 As noted by the research teams, both of these studies indicate the employment-related benefits of subsidizing the child care costs of poor and near-poor mothers. They farther inclicate that, if the primary criterion for allocating child care subsidies was one of promoting work effort, lowerincome rather than higher~income families would be the group on which to focus.
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Her findings inclicate that the adequacy of care that parents obtain while they are in welfare~to~work programs, and during their transition Tom welfare tO work, is of substantial relevance to the success of these initia fives. Meyers followed a sample of 356 single mothers with children uncler age 13 from the time they entered California's welfare reform program (the GAIN program)
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The pressures that face working-poor families were also hightightecl by virtually every state agency representative attending the workshops. Among the problems they iclentified with the current array of chits care subsidy programs, issues of quality and access to care by the working poor were especially prominent.
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Access tO free or low-cost care or, absent this, to financial assistance with child care fees appears to be a critical element of successful efforts to promote economic self~sufficiency among families with young chilciren. A major tension involves the distribution of available subsidies for low-income families across the poor ant]
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