Expanding Illinois Child Care Assistance to Job and School Search: Experiences of Cook County Parents

Research Report
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Expanding Illinois Child Care Assistance to Job and School Search: Experiences of Cook County Parents

Unemployed parents of young children in Illinois face a dilemma: they can’t look for a job without child care, but can’t afford child care without a job. Fortunately in 2021, a temporary policy was put in place that assists parents with the cost of child care while they look for work or enroll in a school program. Our report looks at the impact of this policy on some of the first parents who received this assistance.

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research@actforchildren.org

David Alexander, Ph.D.
Director of Research

Marcia Stoll
Assistant Director of Research

Alejandra Flores
Research & Evaluation Analyst

Arunima Mehrotra
Senior Research Associate

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