One program caught in the middle of the Illinois budget stalemate is the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP). On July first, the Illinois Department of Human Services instituted new rules for C-CAP that have deeply cut the subsidies available for the program. U of I Economics professor Elizabeth Powers recently co-authored an op-ed for Crain’s Chicago Business discussing the impact of these changes on both parents and child care providers. She talked with IPR’s Brian Moline about C-CAP.
That’s Elizabeth Powers a professor of economics at the University of Illinois and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs. You can read her op-ed discussing the Child Care Assistance Program at Chicago business dot com.