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Report: Mississippi misses opportunity to make the most out of child care stimulus funds
While the child tax credit payments eased financial burdens for families, grants for child care centers experienced a delayed rollout and providers struggled from a lack of clear spending guidelines.
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Podcast: Federal funds provide opportunity to fix child care program for working parents
Mississippi’s voucher program to help single working parents has been underfunded and difficult to navigate because of red tape. Carol Burnett and Matt Williams of the Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiative explain how an influx of federal pandemic stimulus dollars could help.
Thousands of Mississippi parents lost child care assistance during pandemic as state hoards federal relief
Thousands of Mississippi parents have lost their child care certificate during the COVID-19 pandemic, even while the state hoards over half-a-billion in unspent federal child care dollars.
This office used to be a front for alleged welfare fraud. Now it’s a child care resource center.
The Department of Human Services opened a new resource center in a space that previously served as a front for alleged welfare fraud.
Stimulus packages offer big boost for Mississippi parents in need of child care
The latest federal stimulus packages will provide enough child care assistance to cover almost 80% of eligible families in Mississippi.
Here’s what lawmakers could do to transform Mississippi’s troubled child support program
We talked to eight experts about what lawmakers and other state officials could do to improve Mississippi’s fraught child support program.
For many families, Mississippi’s child support enforcement program proves nonsensical
A look at how Mississippi’s child support enforcement program often creates unintended effects for many of the state’s families.
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