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Child-care and early‑learning groups ask lawmakers to close funding gaps; campus hunger and literacy grants face cuts
Summary
Advocates asked the Senate committee to fully fund child‑care assistance, restore or increase the Hunger Free Campus grant and reinstate Reach Out and Read support; they warned that partial funding and new federal requirements to prospectively pay providers would strain the system.
Winifred Smith Jenkins of Advocates for Children of New Jersey told the committee the Division of Family Development’s Child Care Assistance Program is at a breaking point and that a $20 million shortfall in the Division’s budget would mean fewer children served and added strain on providers. Jenkins urged the Legislature to fully…
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