NC Sen Hagan For Reauthorizing CCDBG

Last week, U.S. Senator Kay Hagan from NC visited Elm Street Day Care Center in Greensboro to discuss the need for Washington to reauthorize the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG).   Sen Hagan said, “The CCDBG program has helped to make quality early education a reality for children throughout the state, and Elm Street Center is a fantastic model for how we can use federal dollars wisely.”  The CCDBG program, the primary federal grant program supporting childcare for low-income working families, was most recently authorized in 1996. Currently, close to 90,000 children are served through the CCDBG funding in North Carolina.  Each state receives money from CCDBG to help increase low-income families’ access to quality childcare and afterschool programs.