Solutions Sought for High Child Care Costs


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Child care costs can be thousands of dollars a month for some families in Michigan, and advocates are calling for more government help.Recently, the state directed federal money from the American Rescue Plan Act to child care providers across the state.

The money was intended to stabilize those providers and keep them from having to close.

Now, with the end of the funding, one director of one of the facilities is worried about what will happen.

"We were able to cover staff bonuses and benefits with the money," she tells MLive.

But this wasn't enough to retain the staff we need, which is concerning."

Without government grants, child care centers would not be able to expand their services and increase access to more children, one advocate says.

The goal of the project is to improve the economic development of an area alongside the child care services, the advocate adds.

This greatly reduces the pressure on a single provider to solve the problem of accessibility by itself, and would allow them to have more revenue sources outside of tuition, enabling parents to pay less.

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