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Head Start's Impact on the Child Care Gap

Eliminating federal funding for Head Start would leave an additional 654,500 children without access to child care and widen the national child care gap by more than 15 percent. The analysis, Head Start's Impact on the Child Care Gap: How the Loss of Head Start Would Widen Child Care Gaps and Weaken Local Systems, is the first comprehensive national assessment of Head Start’s role in the broader child care supply. The findings make it unmistakably clear that Head Start is not a supplemental program. In many communities, it is the child care system.

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Child Care Trust™
America’s child care system is holding our country back and hurting everyone—children, families, child care providers, communities, and employers. The challenges are well documented. What the country lacks is not more evidence of the problem—but a clear, actionable path forward. To meet this moment, Child Care Aware® of America has launched the Child Care Trust™—an independent, national catalyst for designing the child care system of the future. It will be led by nationally renowned child care expert, Linda K. Smith.