{"id":37459,"date":"2020-06-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging2.threadalaska.org\/thread-blog\/ways-to-advocate-to-local-government-for-more-child-care-support-3\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:00:00","slug":"ways-to-advocate-to-local-government-for-more-child-care-support-3","status":"publish","type":"thread-blog","link":"https:\/\/www.threadalaska.org\/thread-blog\/ways-to-advocate-to-local-government-for-more-child-care-support-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ways to Advocate to Local Government for More Child Care Support"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As Alaska reopens, financial support to licensed child care is needed to ensure this critical community infrastructure reopens safely and responsibly.
\n That is why thread <\/strong>recently sent a letter to officials<\/a> from Alaska\u2019s cities, boroughs and municipalities urging them invest a minimum of 10% of the federal CARES Act funding allocated by the Alaska State
\n Legislature to support licensed child care programs.<\/p>\n

Licensed child care is an essential state infrastructure and a vital part of our economic recovery. Working families cannot continue to go to work or return
\n to the workplace without it. A lack of licensed child care will be a significant barrier to businesses reopening successfully.<\/p>\n

While child care has been on the frontlines of the pandemic, nearly 50% of licensed child care programs were temporarily closed. Child care businesses
\n operate on razor-thin margins, and have fewer resources available to them than public schools. The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many of these small
\n businesses to the brink of permanent closure.<\/p>\n

thread<\/strong> estimates child care will need a minimum public investment of $10 million per month (beginning in April 2020) throughout the pandemic
\n and recovery process.<\/p>\n

This investment will:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n