Newsom Signs Legislation Investing $2 Billion in Publicly Funded Child Care

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  • Source: KQED
  • 09/15/2023
Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a series of early education bills that will boost California’s publicly funded child care and preschool programs right as federal pandemic relief for child care providers runs out at the end of September.

The state is budgeting about $2 billion to cover a roughly 20% pay raise for providers who look after the children of parents with lower income — their first salary bump in five years — and extend a few pandemic-era policies that helped them keep their doors open.

By signing these bills, Newsom also signed off on establishing the nation’s first retirement fund for the union representing more than 40,000 family child care providers and continuing to pay for their health care and professional training.

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