Developmental Trajectories and Outcomes Summary

23 Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) ⚫ Historic increases in funds in FFY 2018 and FFY 2019 Provides funds to states to assist low-income families to afford child care, to help ensure the health and safety of child care, and to invest in improving the quality of care. ⚫ States are using the funds to increase payment rates, serve families on the waiting list for assistance, and implement the new requirements of the 2014 CCDBG reauthorization law. • National Women's Law Center released in January 2019 a report on how specific states were using these increases (updated information is being gathered) https://nwlc.org/resources/states-use-new-child-care-development- block-grant-funds-help-children-families/

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