EXCERPT FROM: STL Today
By Nancy Cambria
ST. LOUIS • An affiliation of five child day care centers that collectively receives nearly $1 million in state child care subsidies is under fire from regulators for potential violations that include failing to pay taxes, maintain building inspections and report accurate enrollment figures.

EXCERPT FROM: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By Jason Stein
Madison - Gov. Scott Walker's administration is tying child-care subsidies for the poor to whether the children are actually attending day care.

EXCERPT FROM: Boston.com
By AP Medical Writer
Massachusetts public assistance programs lost $1 million to fraud during the last three months of fiscal 2011, bringing the total lost to fraud to $4.3 million.

EXCERPT FROM: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By Breann Schossow
A Milwaukee man was sentenced Friday to three years in prison and five years of extended supervision after being convicted on two counts of felony theft from the state-subsidized child care program Wisconsin Shares.

EXCERPT FROM: Burlington County Times
By Rose Krebs
MOUNT HOLLY — Officials at the DEPTH Child and Family Development Center hope that a change in the way the facility receives funding doesn’t have much of an impact on its families.

EXCERPT FROM: Tulsa World
By Ginnie Graham
OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma Department of Human Services officials are bracing for expected budget cuts by looking at reducing staffing levels and changing the eligibility for child-care subsidies, according to a commission meeting report Tuesday.

EXCERPT FROM: DEL Connect
By Washington State Department of Early Learning
On April 1, the Department of Early Learning (DEL) began notifying about half of families on the Working Connections Child Care (WCCC) subsidy waiting list that space is now available for them on the program. We are sending letters to 1,431 families letting them know they have 10 days to call and complete the application process.

EXCERPT FROM: Kitsap Sun
By John Stang
OLYMPIA — A bill to increase state subsidies for child care centers was introduced in the Washington House on Wednesday.

EXCERPT FROM: San Francisco Chronicle
By Marisa Lagos
Assembly Speaker John Pérez will announce today that state officials have found a way to save child care subsidies for 55,000 low-income families - a program that then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to eliminate last year.

EXCERPT FROM: San Francisco Chronicle
By Marisa Lagos
Democratic lawmakers, still fuming over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to eliminate child care subsidies for poor families, will hit back today with a bill that would restore funding to the program and guarantee day care for about 55,000 children.