Chabeli Carrazana

Economy and Child Care Reporter

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Child care is so expensive for parents in college that it often exceeds the cost of their education. For years, one federal program has been helping lower those costs, until this year when the program has faced cuts under the Trump administration.

Now, Democratic lawmakers are leading a push to save it.

House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark and Sen. Tammy Duckworth are reintroducing a bill Thursday to dramatically grow the $80 million Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program, which awards four-year grants to about 260 colleges and universities to offer child care to low-income students, the lawmakers shared exclusively with The 19th.

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