05/30/2023
https://www.congress.gov...
"Head Start, pre-K, and childcare programs have a profound return on investment, as has been pointed out today."
"These low market rates keep wages low, revenues low, and supply low."
"I hope that we all agree is that the wages that early childhood educators make is very, very low."
"Now, New Mexico became the first state in the Nation, along with D.C., to use this alternative methodology to set rates."