Quality early care and education and after-school activities help families' work and children succeed. For low-income families, safe, stable, affordable childcare may make the difference between climbing out of poverty and falling deeper into it. Unfortunately, most poor families lack access to quality, affordable childcare. The paper provides a statistical portrait of childcare use, examples of state strategies to expand childcare for the poor, and the federal policy implications of these changes.
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- Copyright 2001 by W.K. Kellogg Foundation. All rights reserved.