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Child care, senior housing and drug prices top Summit County's funding priorities in meeting with congressional staff
Summary
County leaders told congressional staff that child care funding lapses, lack of local long-term care facilities and rising housing costs are pressing local priorities; a resident told officials her cancer drug costs $20,000 a month to illustrate drug-pricing urgency.
Summit County officials used their meeting with members of U.S. Representative Curtis's staff to press several community priorities left underfunded in the last budget cycle: child care, senior care facilities and affordable housing.
County presenters said federal child care supports recently lapsed and that local families face high monthly child care costs that can exceed…
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