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Article: State puts 1,000 families on waiting list for child-care aid
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- February 16, 2001
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DES MOINES (AP) - An anticipated shortfall of child-care
assistance for poor families forced state officials to put more than
1,000 qualifying families on a waiting list.
Julie Ingersoll, a Department of Human Services administrator who
oversees child-care subsidies, told legislators this week that more
than 1,800 children are not being served.
"The majority of families on that waiting list are our working
families," Ingersoll told the Legislature's human services budget
committee.
Iowa leads the nation in the percentage of families with school-
age children in which both parents, or the only parent in the
household, work. However, the state ranks among the lowest in the
nation in helping ...