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This report has provided a profile of the child care industry in South Carolina and discussed both the short-term and the long-term economic benefits of the industry as it stands today, and also focuses on making high-quality early education and care available. The major themes of this analysis can be summarized as follows: 1. Child care supports the regional economy. 2. Child care supports working families. 3. High-quality child care enables children to succeed in school and life. The South Carolina child care industry embodies both strengths and challenges. The good news is that expected future trends in the state's population growth indicate that the child care industry should see only modest increases in the demand for services. However, major challenges lie in the industry's need t...
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In this paper, I describe the linkage between child care, female employment, and regional economic growth. I begin with a detailed examination of moda...
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Abstract
Child care is a critical community infrastructure important for economic development and family wellbeing. Increased economic interest is b...
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Economic sectors that do not directly support exports are of little interest in traditional economic development analysis. Though input-output multipl...
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Child care has emerged as an important issue for both employers and employees in recent decades. The statistics are telling. In a publication ...
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DALLAS - Jessica Rene Tata was three months shy of her 22nd birthday when she sought to be registered as a home child-care provider in Texas. Her education ended at high school, and there was no indication of formal training in child care.
Even so, the Houston woman had everything she needed under the law to receive the state's approval as well as thousands of dollars in federal subsidies.
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Greg and Tomoko Knudtson and their daughter Nicole memorialized Jenna by creating a fountain and garden in the backyard of their Vancouver home. (N. SCOTT TRIMBLE/The Columbian)
Tomoko Knudtson holds her infant daughter, Jenna, who died at 11 weeks old after suffocating in a child care facility her parents thought was licensed. (Courtesy of the Knudtson Family)
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This rule proposes to codify several provisions of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 affecting the management of the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). The Department is proposing to require institutions to submit an initial CACFP application to the State agency and, in subsequent years, periodically update the information in lieu of submitting a new application; require sponsoring organizations to vary the timing of reviews of sponsored facilities; require State agencies to develop and provide for the use of a standard permanent agreement between sponsoring organizations and day care centers; allow tier II day care homes to collect household income information and transmit it to the sponsoring organization; modify the method of determining administrative payments to spo...
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Armed with fact sheets and graphs, Bruce Liggett laid out his case: He understands that child care can't be spared from budget cuts, but he argues that investing in child care pays off.
The logic is simple. The subsidy allows parents to go to work, stay off unemployment rolls and contribute to the economy. There is another economic argument. For every eight children on child-care subsidy, one job is created. Put another way, for every eight children taken off the subsidy, one job is lost.
