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Advocates ask lawmakers to treat childcare affordability as a systems challenge; nonprofits warn against duplicate reporting mandates
Summary
Speakers told the committee that early childhood costs create an affordability crisis; advocates urged HB5163 to study affordability and workforce pipelines, while nonprofit representatives warned SB154-style reporting could duplicate data already submitted and burden providers.
Meryl Gay, executive director of the Connecticut Early Childhood Alliance, told the Committee on Children that HB5163 to study childcare affordability is timely. She said families face an affordability crisis where childcare and housing costs outpace incomes and noted roughly 3,800 children are on the Care for Kids wait list. Gay urged policies to stabilize supply,…
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