What is the current status of child care assistance in Mississippi and how does it work? Why is child care so expensive? Why is child care infrastructure? MLICCI Executive Director Carol Burnett breaks it all down in this "Changing the Child Care Dialogue in Mississippi" on Women for Progress Radio with Willie Jones. WATCH HERE: https://streamyard.com/favvq8fs7e88

The below statement should be attributed to Carol Burnett, Executive Director of the Mississippi Low Income Child Care Initiative: “The Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiative (MLICCI) welcomes the recent announcement by the Mississippi Department of Human Services to utilize Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) direct funding to support the Child Care Payment Program (CCPP), a solution our organization has advocated for many years, and especially since the program pause in...

The U.S. Health and Human Services Department recently released the final rule in the federal Child Care Development Fund (CCDF), rolling back some changes made by the Biden Administration. One is of particular interest to Mississippi. It rolls back a requirement to pay centers for services to families based on child enrollment rather than days of child attendance. The final rule allows states to decide whether to pay based on enrollment. Mississippi began paying centers that participate in...