The funding for that came from the federal funding that we got through the Affordable Care, not the, the Recovery Act, American Recovery Act. So that money is dried up. And The governor did introduce $480 million into the budget proposal. He had to save that program to keep it going. The reason it's important is because it happened during COVID that up to 25% of our childcare centers around the state, whether it be small at home or larger centers, closed, and many, if not most of them, did not reopen again. (13:20–13:32)
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