Maggie Hassan: “It's a civil rights issue, and it should be on the forefront of everybody at the Department of Education regardless of…”

“I valued the opportunity to hear about the challenges that they face when it comes to hiring and retaining qualified teachers, even as demand for child care remains incredibly high.

Child care costs are crushing working families across the country and making it harder for businesses to find and retain the workforce that they need.

The workforce shortage is a main driver in the gap between supply and demand and is key to making and quality child care more accessible and affordable so that parents can enter and stay in the workforce and our businesses can recruit the…

I am pleased to see this bill signed into law and I will continue working with my colleagues of both parties to protect taxpayer dollars and increase government transparency.