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Why more than 400,000 kids are on waitlists for federal childcare assistance

Over 400,000 children are stuck on waitlists for the Child Care and Development Fund, the federal government's primary childcare assistance program for low-income families. The program currently serves 1.6 million children monthly, but demand far exceeds capacity, leaving hundreds of thousands of working families without support.

✦ What This Means For Us

HBCU students — disproportionately first-generation, working parents, and from low-income households — need childcare to stay enrolled. When federal childcare assistance has 400,000 kids waiting, that's 400,000 families where a parent may have to choose between their degree and their child. Black women are overrepresented among student parents at HBCUs and in low-wage work that makes childcare unaffordable without federal help. This waitlist is a dropout pipeline in disguise.

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