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Dear friends and neighbors: Years from now, we will remember the Fair Start for Kids Act (SB 5237) as a landmark achievement of the 2021 legislative session. Our childcare and early learning system was in crisis before the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0 After more than a year of economic disruption, and the system is on the brink of collapse in many communities. Working parents in Washington forgo $14 billion a year in lost wages due to the lack of childcare access. The Fair Start for Kids Act takes multi-faceted approach to solving the childcare crisis, addressing racial equity and helping the economy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":1196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
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