2024 CT Senate race: on Welfare & Poverty

Chris Murphy: Raise $41,500 salary limit for subsidized childcare

That delivers an enormous harm to families but also to our workforce. I met a young woman and she's got a very young child. They are on the waitlist for a subsidized child care slot. She can't get into the workforce. Why? Because she has to stay home to take care of her young child.

In Connecticut, we have a program called Care for Kids. This program gives lower income families some subsidy so that they can afford child care. But that program cuts off for a one child family at $41,500 a year in income. Now that's a lower middle income salary in Connecticut.