Families who receive child care subsidies are more likely to work and to stay off welfare. Without quality child care, children are less safe and families less secure -- yet only one out of seven children who are eligible for federal child care assistance receives it. This CLASP fact sheet has the data and the arguments for including adequate childcare funding in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) reauthorization legislation pending in Congress.

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