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Leaders call for child care support

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Leaders call for child care support
Leaders call for child care support

Sen.

Kirsten Gillibrand and Lt.

Gov.

Kathy Hochul visited Child Care Solutions in Syracuse to meet with local child care providers and discuss the need for critical support for the child care industry.

Or reduced the number of slots available?

The lieutenant governor welcomed u-s senator kirsten gillibrand to syracuse....to call for critical support for the child care industry.

According to senator gillibrand, the industry could lose more than four million child care slots.

She is pushing to include the child cares essential act in the next covid packageit would provide 50 billion dollars of grant funding to child care providersto help cover the costs of cleaning...and maintaining new standards....to make sure these facilities can be open.

Senator kirsten gillibrand / (d) new york- 21:07:21 "throughout this crisis child care providers have been the essential workers behind the essential workers, taking care of children of doctors, nurses, etc.

All so they could take care of the rest of our community.

Theyve stepped up when they were needed, now when we need them even more its our turn to step up."

Many of the back to school plans include distance learnineaning ild care will see increased demand and will likely need more funding to survive.

Lawmakers are going home for the weekend without any progress

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