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Child Care for Low-Income Families Summary of Two Workshops (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 48-52

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From page 48...
... They offer insights from research and from the experience of state officials who administer federal child care subsidies for low-income families into salient issues affecting these families' efforts to obtain safe and reliable care for their chilclren while they prepare for work and maintain employment. They also point to promising avenues for future research.
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From page 49...
... · There is a very wide range of quality within every type of care. · Children from low-income families particularly those that are exclusively dependent on maternal income are enrolled disproportionately in poorer-quality home-based child care arrangements; these inequities in access to quality do not appear to characterize child care centers, although this may be clue to the relatively small proportion of low-income families who can avail themselves of generally part-clay enriched early intervention programs.
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From page 50...
... as the fragmented! structure of current child care subsidies, leacl to a series of cletrimental consequences: · State child care administrators are faced with difficult decisions regarding the allocation of scarce public subsidies across nonworking families who are on public assistance and those who are often equally poor or near poverty but are working.
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From page 51...
... 8. Overall levels of public assistance for child care relative to demand create major tensions at the state and local levels between funding direct services and supporting efforts to improve quality of care.
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