EXCERPT FROM: Arizona Daily Star
By Carmen Duarte
A Pueblo Gardens child-care center won a $50,000 grant from Pepsi to subsidize day care for 40 children from low-income families.

EXCERPT FROM: East Valley Tribune
By Michelle Reese
Parents seeking employment can find free childcare in Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa and Tempe at Sunrise Preschools and Tots Unlimited Preschools. The companies will provide free licensed care for children ages 6 weeks to 12 years while parents go to job interviews.

EXCERPT FROM: The New York Times
By Peter S. Goodman
TUCSON — Able-bodied, outgoing and accustomed to working, Alexandria Wallace wants to earn a paycheck. But that requires someone to look after her 3-year-old daughter, and Ms. Wallace, a 22-year-old single mother, cannot afford child care.

EXCERPT FROM: Arizona Daily Star
By Patty Machelor
There were no waiting lists for working parents who needed help with child care costs at this time last year.

EXCERPT FROM: The Arizona Republic
By Casey Newton
Arizona's child-care system will hit a grim milestone today when the 10,000th child is turned away from a program that provides assistance to working parents.

EXCERPT FROM: The Daily Courier
By Joanna Dodder Nellans
The Arizona Department of Economic Security has adjusted proposed fee increases for childcare center licenses, in response to protests from the centers.

EXCERPT FROM: KPHO Phoenix
PHOENIX -- An east Valley hospital now offers a day care program for mildly sick infants and children.

PHOENIX -- About 200 child care providers and parents protested a scheduled fee increase for an Arizona child care license.

It's a perfect storm in Arizona. Parents of young children in our state are facing rising child care costs and reduced tuition support.

Operators of child care centers are organizing to battle a proposed increase in state licensing fees.