Access to child care and securing a solid workforce at child care centers is a “crisis” for which many federal and state entities have been searching for solutions.
Ohio parents are working hard, sometimes at multiple jobs, but most still can’t afford child care, that is if there are child care options at all where they live.
A host of bills meant to improve the child care system in Ohio are currently making their way through the legislature, some partnering employers and the state, and some aiming to lift a tax burden off Ohio parents.
Republicans in the House and Senate recognized the “crisis” in Ohio involving child care costs and access, committing in a new bill to partner employers and the state, in the effort to stem the problem.
A couple hundred people donning purple — some holding babies and others watching toddlers — rallied on the Statehouse steps Monday for National Day Without Child Care as chants of “Care can’t wait” and “No child care, no workforce” filled the lawn.
The Ohio Department of Children and Youth and Ohio Department of Job & Family Services are looking to adopt two new rule changes that impact Ohio’s publicly funded child care and the rating system used for it.
Meaghan Robbins doesn’t like when her husband, a member of the Army National Guard, is deployed for long stints. But with a toddler in need of child care, she can’t argue with the extra money.
An Ohio child welfare advocacy group says the state’s rainy-day fund, plus billions in unused revenue, could go a long way to expand child programs and services.
New polling conducted by a national advocacy group found the “vast majority” of Ohio voters want to see more affordable quality child care in the state.
