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Finding and Paying for Childcare

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Governor Shumlin has made providing child care for low-income Vermonters a priority in his budget this year. That still leaves a lot of middle-income families who are struggling to find and afford someone to help look after their kids. We’ll explore the landscape of child care in Vermont.
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Child care subsidy program gets stimulus boost

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Federal stimulus money is flowing into Vermont to help low-income families keep their jobs. Almost $3 million will go toward subsidizing child care over the next two years. The money is targeted to low-income families.
Vermont Edition

Vermont’s Child Care Challenge

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With 70 percent of Vermont’s young children in out-of-home care for at least part of the work week, high quality, affordable child care has become a key economic development issue for the state. We talk about it with child care advocate Melissa Riegel-Garrett and with Green Mountain Power President Mary Powell, the co-chair of Governor Douglas’s Building Bright Futures Council. And we visit a farm that’s weaning itself from fossil fuels.