Children First for Oregon

State Budget Cuts Could Slash Childcare Subsidies

State Budget Cuts Could Slash Childcare Subsidies
Friday, February 17, 2012
Andy Giegerich, Portland Business Journal

Coverage from the Portland Business Journal highlights how the ERDC Program can help families better their economic situation and take care of their children.

Yet supporters, primarily family advocate group Children First for Oregon, fear that impending budget cuts will prevent the program from expanding this session. If so, lawmakers would break promises they made during last year’s session to eventually boost the program’s enrollment to 10,000 families.

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Stacy Michaelson, Children First for Oregon’s policy [associate], maintains that the day care subsidy “is a jobs program because it helps people get and keep jobs.”

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