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Theme 1: Child Care Subsidy Policies, Financing Strategies & Infrastructure Issues

Theme 1: Child Care Subsidy Policies, Financing Strategies & Infrastructure Issues. Issue Group Discussion 2: Child Care Subsidy Utilization: Hypothesizing Family, Provider, and Regulatory Barriers and Opportunities. Introductions. Suggestions for Today’s Discussion.

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Theme 1: Child Care Subsidy Policies, Financing Strategies & Infrastructure Issues

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  1. Theme 1: Child Care Subsidy Policies, Financing Strategies & Infrastructure Issues Issue Group Discussion 2: Child Care Subsidy Utilization: Hypothesizing Family, Provider, and Regulatory Barriers and Opportunities

  2. Introductions

  3. Suggestions for Today’s Discussion • Getting on the same page: brief review of what we already know • Types of subsidies • Purposes of subsidies • Rates of subsidy uptake • Barriers to and opportunities for subsidy utilization • One point of view (our research) • Other points of view (other findings) • Hypotheses and directions for further research?

  4. Types of subsidies • Tax system • E.g. Child care tax credits are an indirect subsidy • Government provision of child care • e.g. Head Start • Targeted cash subsidies to childcare providers or families • Welfare recipients (TANF) • Non-TANF receiving, working poor families • Often states use Child Care Development Block Grant funds for these non-entitlement subsidies

  5. Purposes of subsidies • For poor or low income parents • Enable parents to enter the labor market • Key to welfare reform • Reduce affordability problems • Help families afford more stable and higher quality care • For middle class parents • increase political will • Increase sense of fairness • Increase pool of higher quality care for all families

  6. Uptake rates vary widely • 12% - 15% eligible families nationally • Child Care Bureau, 2002 • Fewer than 20% • estimates from Urban Institute, 2002 • 30% of welfare-leavers nationally • Schumacher & Greenberg, 1999 • 33% eligible Phila. African-American families • Shlay, et al (submitted) • 54% eligible Pennsylvania families • Weinraub, et al (Governor’s task force report) • Others? • Why the variance?

  7. Why don’t low income families access these subsidies? • Our research for Child Care Bureau shows that, at least in Philadelphia, it is not the lack of funding and the existence of long waiting lists • What about for other states?

  8. The Philadelphia study of low-income, subsidy eligible families

  9. Knowledge of Child Care Subsidy Eligibility

  10. Significant Predictors of Subsidy Receipt

  11. A copy of the full report is available on-line @ http://www.temple.edu/cpp_reports.htm

  12. Discussion • Other findings in regard to barriers to subsidies • Role of providers? • Cross-cultural barriers? • Information dissemination? • Others? • Research directions

  13. From Anne, Henry and Marsha • Thanks to all • Lunchtime!

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