Ahead of HELP Hearing, Murray and Sanders Release Report on Worsening Child Care Crisis, Imminent Funding Cliff

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"Our nation's child care sector was hanging on by a thread before the pandemic, and it was headed straight for collapse when COVID hit our country and providers prepared to close their doors for good. The historic federal investment in our nation's child care sector that I fought tooth and nail to deliver saved the child care sector from collapse -- keeping 220,000 providers' doors open and saving child care slots for 10 million kids across our country. But the funding we provided will expire this fall -- which will likely force providers to lay off staff or shut down, force parents to leave work when they lose their child care, and take a wrecking ball to our economic recovery -- unless we take action. Failing to invest in child care means failing to invest in our economy -- it means worsening an already serious workforce shortage. This isn't rocket science -- businesses are struggling to hire the workers they need, parents need quality child care to get to work, child care workers need a living wage if we want them to take care of our children, and kids deserve a safe place to grow up and learn. I will not let up for one second until we finally fix the child care crisis in America."

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