Child care industry 'struggling' after COVID-era funds expire: 'It's hurting everybody'
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Rebecca Davis, who runs a daycare in Mabelvale, Arkansas, details how the expiration of federal funds coupled with economic instability is hurting the child care industry.
"The uncertainty of our enrollment from day to day, and then now with the price of materials and food that has doubled, the cost of living has increased." Madeline Coggins is a Digital Production Assistant on the Fox News flash team with Fox News Digital.
Federal funding from President Biden's American Rescue Plan expired last September – the end of fiscal year 2023.
According to research by the Century Foundation from last year, the end of the American Rescue Plan funding could affect the care of over 3 million children.
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