Families of four with incomes of up to $96,300 are eligible for subsidized child care, under new state income limits, and those with incomes under roughly $85,000 will pay no 'family fees' for it
The proposed reforms aim to fix long-standing structural issues in the child care system, among them problems The San Diego Union-Tribune detailed in an in-depth series on the real costs of child care.
A new commercial tax aims to do something novel in California: provide child care financial aid for middle-class families and set a minimum wage of $28 an hour for early education teachers.
California has set aside money to expand subsidized child care to serve more than 100,000 more children but just allocating money doesn't guarantee it can go to use.