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Child Care Assistance


REPORTS
Starting RIte Child Care
The Right Start for Children, Families and Rhode Island (4.06)

This report, sponsored by the Women's Fund of Rhode Island, examines the outcomes of and changes to the Starting RIte program in Rhode Island over the past seven years since its inception. 

FACT SHEETS
•  Helping Workers Increase Their Jobs and Move Up the Job Ladder: Improvements to the Starting RIte Subsidized Child Care Program (4.27.09)
•  State Spending & Caseload Trends for Work Support Programs (4.27.09)
•  States With Separate Child Care Eligibility Limits for Families Entering and Those Already Receiving Assistance (4.27.09)
Affordable, Quality Childcare (2007)
Facts about Child Care Assistance in RI (2.06)
Facts about child care assistance in Rhode Island.


TESTIMONY
•  Comments on Regulatory Changes to Medicaid, Child Care and RIte Care (8.06)
The Poverty Institute has submitted written comments on the proposed regulatory changes to Medicaid, Child Care Assistance, and Rite Care. You can also sign onto the Poverty Institute's comments. 
• Testimony on HR7289 - Child care assistance for workers who need education and training (3.15.06)
Click here to read testimony by Linda Katz.
• Testimony on H7120 FY06 Supplemental Budget - Delaying the chlid careprovider rate increase (3.23.06)
Click here to read testimony by Kate Brewster.
Testimony opposing child care co-pay increases (3.21.06)

  All documents are in downloadable PDF format




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