{"id":10707,"date":"2021-10-20T11:48:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T11:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investupmi.com\/?p=10707"},"modified":"2021-10-20T11:48:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T11:48:08","slug":"child-care-allocated-1-4-billion-in-new-state-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investupmi.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/20\/child-care-allocated-1-4-billion-in-new-state-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Child care allocated $1.4 billion in new state budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an attempt to address the implications that the lack of accessible and affordable childcare is having on the labor market, the new state budget allocated $1.4 billion towards Michigan&#8217;s child care system. Child care measures included in the new budget include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 $700 million in stabilization grants, which will go directly to child care providers to cover costs and help them stay open. <br>\u2022 $36.5 million to contract with providers who care for infants and toddlers. Care for the youngest children is in short supply, in part because it is expensive &#8211; an adult can only legally care for 3 or 4 infants at a time. Through contracts, as opposed to a biweekly reimbursement, the state can provide more stable funding.<br>\u2022 $100 million to help open new child care centers in areas where there aren&#8217;t enough early childhood classrooms and to expand existing centers.<br>\u2022 $30 million to pay child care workers a $1,000 bonus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/detroit.chalkbeat.org\/2021\/9\/22\/22688647\/michigan-families-child-care-subsidy-historic-investment-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to address the implications that the lack of accessible and affordable childcare is having on the labor market, the new state budget allocated $1.4 billion towards Michigan&#8217;s child care system. Child care measures included in the new budget include: \u2022 $700 million in stabilization grants, which will go directly to child care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-bites"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Child care allocated $1.4 billion in new state budget - InvestUP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The state budget allocated $1.4 billion towards Michigan&#039;s child care system in attempt to address implications that lack of care is having.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investupmi.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/20\/child-care-allocated-1-4-billion-in-new-state-budget\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Child care allocated $1.4 billion in new state budget - 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