The Health Resource & Service Administration Releases New Recommendations on Rural Child Care

  The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services has a new policy brief examining the challenges in rural areas.  The brief focuses on the long-standing difficulties and its importance for the well-being and economic stability of rural families.  The pandemic brought greater attention to these challenges, along with historic levels of funding to childcare providers through COVID-19 supplemental appropriations to ensure the continued availability of care. 

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