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Budget includes new cost-sharing child care program, mixed support for other initiatives

COLUMBUS, Ohio -Gov. Mike DeWine signed the state’s two-year, $60 billion budget, which includes a new $10 million child care cost-sharing initiative. DeWine signed the budget bill at 11:15 p.m.
The Post-Crescent

'A bridge to nowhere': Despite money for child care in the state budget, providers say more is needed

The 2025-27 budget comes with some funds for child care, but it brings in policy changes providers have criticized. One provider says she ended up with a $15,000 pay cut because she had to raise rates ...
WUNC

This fall, NC had a net loss of child care providers. The state budget delay is one factor

Students in the two to three-year-old classroom at the Community School for People Under Six in Carrboro, North Carolina. For the first time in years, going back to the onset of the pandemic, North ...