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Keep Child Care in the Budget:

In May, the General Assembly and Governor Youngkin will have to work together to produce a budget after attempts to complete the process during the session failed. The governor’s original budget proposal included generous funding to make child care more accessible to families, and he also included $40 million for workforce development, which would help bring in new child care workers, a measure that is desperately needed to address the real causes of the child care crisis.

We don’t want these funds to be cut in order to fund some other priority!

Please contact your state senator and delegate and ask them to support this child care funding. You can find them at this link.

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