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The Policy Environment in Child Care
Pages 15-18

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... care policy. Rather, a collection of fecleraT child care policies has accumulatecI over time, with different funding streams targetec]
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... care is in extraordinary flux amid mounting pressure for consolilation, growing recognition of the adverse effects of fragmentation, and increasing Revolution of power from the federal government to the states. They also noted that these factors pose critical challenges to the existing research agenda, making it more crucial than ever to understanc!
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... Adclitional research should be clone, participants said, to determine what factors guide state choices in spencling chilc] care block grant funds (e.g., buclgets, political priorities, conflicts between political parties, the relative strengths of lobbying groups, the history of chitcl care funding in the state)
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... Other issues that were discussed as warranting research attention included changes in the distribution of subsidies across nonworking and equally tow-income working families, changes in the proportion of family income spent on child care in different socioeconomic groups, and effects on the work effort and capacity to maintain employment of families with differing access to subsidizec3 child care. As before, the participants highlighted the importance of examining the effects of child care policy relative to other influences on these families' lives.
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