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Tammy Baldwin: “It was a 9% increase for the Child Care Development Block…”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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INTERVIEW: One on one with Senator Tammy Baldwin

Published | Video Starts at 03:15

… was no ability to spend beyond what we had spent in the past fiscal year, we managed by moving things around to increase overall child care funding by $1 billion. It was a 9% increase for the Child Care Development Block grant this year. And we also have a significant increase in the Head Start program. So we're very pleased to be able to sort of incrementally increase our commitment, recognizing the crisis situation that we're in right now. (03:15–03:21)

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