SWFI Child Care Economics Action Team

The purpose of the SWFI Child Care Economics Action Team is to identify specific, actionable solutions to increase the affordability of quality care for parents while also ensuring the financial viability of care provision for center, home-based and informal care providers.

Solutions to be explored for providers include: how to extend the benefits of child care tax breaks to broader array of care providers; expansion of public and private subsidies to underwrite business costs; new business models or structures to create more sustainable child care businesses that offer high quality care and livable wages for employees.

Potential solutions for parents include: expansion of and/or re-prioritization of CCAP funds to address areas of most acute need; expansion of savings plan options and employer subsidies.