The importance of quality, affordable care for our children crosses partisan and urban-rural divides, and the pandemic highlighted how deeply our economy relies on support for young families. When schools,
During my campaign for the Legislature in 2020, I worked hard for four more years of a Democratic governor in Montana. And yet, when Gov. Gianforte was elected, I was
As Montanans Struggle To Access Affordable Child Care, Officials Can’t Agree On Solutions
Child care isn’t easy to find or pay for in Montana. While research shows the lack of affordable child care options has major impacts on the state’s economy and workforce, Montana lawmakers came out of the 2021 legislative session with fundamental disagreements about how to address the problem.
Mornings for Rose and George in their sunny, toy-cluttered two-bedroom apartment in the Gallatin Valley are full of highs and lows.
George spends mornings with his mom because Rose works a commercial cleaning job at night. It’s flexible, which is important to a single parent like Rose. She can add shifts when money’s tight and work around daytime appointments.
A few dozen of the 721 bills that passed the Montana Legislature this year grabbed the public’s rapt attention hot-button social issue bills and big-dollar spending measures that prompted headlines and drew, in some cases, thousands of public comments as lawmakers wrangled over their fates.
Most of the state’s new laws, however, took far quieter paths en route to the hallowed chapters of Montana Code Annotated.
A tally of public comments produced by legislative staff, reflecting web and phone messages sent to lawmakers through the Legislature’s information services desk, indicates there were more than 127,000 individual comments on the 1,313 bills that were considered over the course of the 2021 session. The lion’s share of those comments, two-thirds, dealt with only 50 high-profile measures.
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