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Child Care: Working Poor and Welfare Recipients Face Service Gaps

HEHS-94-87 Published: May 13, 1994. Publicly Released: May 13, 1994.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed states' implementation of the Child Care Development Block Grant, focusing on: (1) how states are integrating the child care block grant program with the three other federal child care programs for low-income families; and (2) gaps in the delivery of child care services to low-income families that could impede their achieving economic self-sufficiency through employment.

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Block grantsChild care programsDisadvantaged personsEligibility criteriaIncome maintenance programsPublic assistance programsState-administered programsWelfare recipientsSupplemental security incomeGovernment subsidies