EXCERPT FROM: WBNG News
By WBNG News
It could cost you more money to send your child to day care, than to send a child to college.

EXCERPT FROM: WIVT/WBGH Newschannel34
By Family Enrichment Network
According to a recent report released by the National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies (NACCRRA) entitled, Parents and the High Cost of Child Care: 2010 Update, parents who choose child care in a center or a family child care home must pay a significant part of their income for this care. Low- and middle-income parents have limited access to affordable, quality care.

EXCERPT FROM: WGRZ.com
By WRGZ 2 News
BUFFALO, NY-- The Erie County Department of Social Services announced Monday that as a result of increased funding for child care, eligibility levels for the low income subsidy program will be increased from 125% to 175%.

EXCERPT FROM: New York InjuryNews
By Tara Monks
New York, NY – According to court documents, charges have been filed against four New York City day care service providers and seven city officials for fraud that gained them $18 million, as reported by WABC 7.

EXCERPT FROM: The New York Times
By WIlliam Rashbaum
A group of day care center operators bribed workers at three New York City agencies and exploited the complex social service bureaucracy to loot millions of dollars from a program that pays child-care expenses for poor parents so they can find work, officials said Tuesday.

EXCERPT FROM: The Observer-Dispatch
By Bryon Ackerman
Oneida County is 30 to 60 days behind on almost $500,000 of payments to local child care providers as a result of cash-flow concerns stemming from late state payments, County Executive Anthony Picente said Monday.

EXCERPT FROM: LoHud.com
By Gerald McKinstry
Democrats and day-care advocates are keeping the pressure on County Executive Rob Astorino over his midyear cuts to child care.

EXCERPT FROM: Hudson Valley Press Online
By STAFF
Albany - Governor David A. Paterson recently signed 18 bills into law including legislation that will enhance the availability of child day care centers, enacts the "Jury Pool Fair Representation Act" and extends the period of time in which Vietnam veterans may seek compensation for injuries caused by exposure to Agent Orange, among others. Governor Paterson vetoed one bill.

EXCERPT FROM: The New York Times
By David W. Chen
Christina Nieves’s life revolves around a handful of blocks in Brooklyn: Drop off her 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son at the Strong Place day care center. Make sure her 75-year-old grandmother, who uses a wheelchair, makes it to lunch at the Gowanus Senior Center. Then, on too many occasions to count, take her son, who is asthmatic and prone to seizures, to the Wyckoff children’s clinic.

EXCERPT FROM: Times Union
By Jennifer Gish
When Sarah Bruno-Robichaud learned she'd be laid off from her job in the social service field last September, one of her first thoughts was not how she'd pay the utility bill, but how she could keep her day care provider.