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Subject: Ensure Stabilization Funding for Child Care
Dear [REP/SENATOR],
I’m writing to ask that you ensure there is significant funding prioritized in the next COVID-19 recovery package to stabilize the child care industry. Because Congress and the White House did not reach an agreement on overall spending, millions of families and thousands of child care providers are in flux regarding the state of child care.
Families need your support to help pull the country's child care industry back from the brink of collapse. For an industry that already operates on razor-thin margins, the situation is grim. Across the country, 40% of child care providers say they will close permanently without financial relief, and the U.S. could lose roughly half of the nation’s child care supply.
While I want to thank you for the emergency coronavirus child care measures you’ve helped pass thus far, spikes in COVID-19 mean that child care providers are still facing months of closing, reopening, and continued uncertainty-- operating costs are up and enrollment is down. Dedicated relief through a financial stabilization fund is needed to ensure providers can afford to stay in business and continue caring for children in their communities through what promises to be an unpredictable few months.
The House passed a bipartisan bill in July proposing $50 billion for a child care stabilization fund and Senate Republicans proposed $15 billion for the child care industry. None of that matters if House and Senate leadership don’t prioritize child care in any further recovery negotiations.
The Chamber of Commerce recently stated, “Without this industry’s survival and ability to safely care for the children of working parents, every other American industry will struggle to return to work.” America’s economic recovery cannot succeed if Congress allows the child care industry to fail.
I urge you to insist on stabilization funding levels that will keep America’s child care providers in business. Analysis of the child care sector shows that it will take at least $50 billion to sustain the child care sector for just six months.
The time is now for Congress to build on the broad bipartisan support for the child care industry and it must prioritize significant emergency relief funding – well above the $15 billion included in the HEALS Act. The success of our country’s economic recovery depends on whether or not child care providers receive the emergency funding they need to stay afloat.
Child care providers support our families, businesses, and the economy. You can support them by urging leadership to prioritize significant funding for child care in the next relief package.
Thank you,
[NAME]
Dear [REP/SENATOR],
I’m writing to ask that you ensure there is significant funding prioritized in the next COVID-19 recovery package to stabilize the child care industry. Because Congress and the White House did not reach an agreement on overall spending, millions of families and thousands of child care providers are in flux regarding the state of child care.
Families need your support to help pull the country's child care industry back from the brink of collapse. For an industry that already operates on razor-thin margins, the situation is grim. Across the country, 40% of child care providers say they will close permanently without financial relief, and the U.S. could lose roughly half of the nation’s child care supply.
While I want to thank you for the emergency coronavirus child care measures you’ve helped pass thus far, spikes in COVID-19 mean that child care providers are still facing months of closing, reopening, and continued uncertainty-- operating costs are up and enrollment is down. Dedicated relief through a financial stabilization fund is needed to ensure providers can afford to stay in business and continue caring for children in their communities through what promises to be an unpredictable few months.
The House passed a bipartisan bill in July proposing $50 billion for a child care stabilization fund and Senate Republicans proposed $15 billion for the child care industry. None of that matters if House and Senate leadership don’t prioritize child care in any further recovery negotiations.
The Chamber of Commerce recently stated, “Without this industry’s survival and ability to safely care for the children of working parents, every other American industry will struggle to return to work.” America’s economic recovery cannot succeed if Congress allows the child care industry to fail.
I urge you to insist on stabilization funding levels that will keep America’s child care providers in business. Analysis of the child care sector shows that it will take at least $50 billion to sustain the child care sector for just six months.
The time is now for Congress to build on the broad bipartisan support for the child care industry and it must prioritize significant emergency relief funding – well above the $15 billion included in the HEALS Act. The success of our country’s economic recovery depends on whether or not child care providers receive the emergency funding they need to stay afloat.
Child care providers support our families, businesses, and the economy. You can support them by urging leadership to prioritize significant funding for child care in the next relief package.
Thank you,
[NAME]