LOADING ERROR LOADINGWorking parents, child care center operators and their advocates have all reacted with alarm to the Trump administration’s plan to withhold federal child care funding from blue states, warning that low-income families and child care workers will bear the brunt of a political attack. Around 23,000 kids in Minnesota benefit from the state’s child care assistance program, which passes federal money along to child care centers that serve low-income families. Ruth Friedman, a child care expert at the left-leaning Century Foundation, said it might not be easy to satisfy the administration’s demands. AdvertisementLydia Boerboom, an organizer at Kids Count On Us, a Minnesota-based nonprofit that advocates for child care funding, said the vast majority of care providers are aboveboard and want any fraud rooted out of the system. “There has been a very coordinated effort to make sure that child care is being defunded at every level possible right now.”Elliot Haspel, an expert on early childhood education, said allegations of widespread fraud in the Minnesota child care system date back to at least 2019.

Source: Huffington Post January 09, 2026 02:09 UTC