What are child care providers saying?

It's time for our lawmakers to invest in: ✅ Quality, affordable child care ✅ Expanding the Child Tax Credit ✅ Ensuring all kids are fed Let’s ensure every child has a bright future. #VPDebates202

What child care provider are saying.

What child care providers are saying.

What child care providers are saying. #SolveChildCare WV Legislature @WVGovernor

What child care providers are saying. #SolveChildCare

More child care slots closing in West Virginia: Today Bible Center Church announced they’re closing their child care for Birth-2 due to an inability to “financially sustain”.

What child care providers are saying. #SolveChildCare

A 2% cut to income tax rates would give the average WV household about 40 cents per week. But the $46 million it would cost could fund nearly 2 years of child care subsidies providers are asking for.

WV doesn’t need a pilot program to start new child care programs. It needs real solutions to help the existing providers that have been caring for our children for 10, 20, 40 years. #SolveChildCare

The average family in West Virginia would receive around $227 in the Republicans' child care tax credit. What a farce! That's barely a week's worth of child care! And worse, it does nothing to address the lack of supply of child care, which is the real crisis! #wvgopfail

Hey Patrick Morrisey Your website says "As Governor, he will work to help low-income moms who bring their children to term so that West Virginia’s culture of protecting life continues to extend beyond birth." Does that mean you will ensure free child care?

In the first year of the Hope Scholarship alone, over $300,000 in WV taxpayer funds went to out-of-state schools and nearly $2 million to unaccredited schools. Tax dollars shouldn’t fund unaccountable private schools. westvirginiawatch.com/2023/08/29/mor…

A new analysis from Education Law Center shows WV's education spending is $702 per pupil below the national average using 2021-22 school year data. Authors noted that does not capture the full impact of charter schools and vouchers on the educational landscape. wvnews.com/new-report-ran…

“Do you have a legislator that supports increased investments for child care?”

$75 million could go a long way toward #solvingchildcare in West Virginia. And 100% would stay in WV w/ WV residents! WV Association for Young Children

How about throwing some of that money to improving child care infrastructure? This would also create a stronger economy. Come on @WVGovernor you still have time.

Just a reminder that 69,000 children (20.1%) in WV lived in poverty in 2023, in case you don't hear anything about them today.

For the cost of the Hope Scholarship in FY 2026, $110 million, lawmakers could instead make critical investments in our public schools: increasing professional support personnel (~10 in each school district) and giving pay raises to all teachers, nurses, and bus operators.

Hope to see members of our WV Legislature at one of the upcoming Child Care Community Conversation!