America has 5 days before 3.2 million kids could be left without childcare

This week, a federal-funding pipeline for struggling daycares will expire, which could force 70,000 centers to close nationwide. Congress is likely to let it happen.

In five days, the U.S. will go over what’s being called, un-euphemistically, a “childcare cliff.” September 30 marks the day that federal funding for childcare expires—closing a pipeline to $24 billion, which was earmarked by the American Rescue Plan in 2021, to prop up struggling daycare centers.

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