Mississippi parents and childcare providers worry they may lose child care subsidy benefits

The program was intended to help low-income, unhoused and TANF parents pay for child care services. The COVID-19 related federal funding that allowed the agency to serve many of the families has been exhausted, forcing the program to resume its pre-pandemic level of support.

Lutaya Stewart is the founder and co-director of the Children Educare Preschool.

“We are in the middle of south Jackson,” she said. “A large number of my parents, 97% of my parents are childcare certificates,” she said…

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