USCCB welcomes bipartisan childcare bill

September 16, 2014

Two committee chairmen of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops welcomed a bipartisan agreement on the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act, which provides vouchers to low-income families to spend at the childcare facility of their choice.

“This legislative agreement also appropriately reaffirms the importance and pre-eminence of the child care certificates as the bedrock parental choice component of the program and acknowledges the critical role that Catholic and other faith-based providers play in this program,” said Archbishop George Lucas of Omaha, the chairman of the Committee on Catholic Education.

“The members of Congress, in this agreement, strengthen a program that has worked well over the last two decades and continues to provide low-income working families with the child care assistance they need, from the provider they choose,” added Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami, chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. “Child care is increasingly important for family stability, as well as finding and keeping decent work.”

 

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Further information:

• USCCB Chairmen And NCEA President Welcome Bipartisan, Bicameral Agreement Reached To Reform Child Care And Development Block Grant Program (USCCB)
• House passes child care bill (Politico)