Update the Child Care Subsidy to Help Families and Protect Jobs

Working parents need high-quality, affordable child care that allows them to stay on the job, and Maryland’s child care subsidy has not kept pace with growing costs. The cost of one year of child care in Maryland can exceed the cost of one year tuition at Maryland’s most expensive in-state undergraduate college^[1]. Maryland’s child care subsidy program is aimed at helping low-income and poor parents afford this cost. It also provides compensation to thousands of child care providers.

[1] Maryland Center on Economic Policy. “State of Working Maryland” 2013