Senate Bill 1474 Printer's Number 1954

PENNSYLVANIA, September 24 - to flourish as a society.

(6) If this government fails to act in service to its

obligations, the signs and symptoms will manifest in

disruptions to even the most crucial services offered in this

Commonwealth.

(7) For working families across this Commonwealth, child

care is a crucial service that allows those with children to

pursue opportunity and prosperity.

(8) For working families across this Commonwealth, child

care services may be difficult to access or entirely

unavailable.

(9) For working families across this Commonwealth,

available child care services are too often too expensive to

justify the continued maintenance of multiple income sources

within the household. For single-parent homes, this

difficulty may be even more pronounced.

(10) The resulting effect of this breakdown is

deleterious to the economy of the home and to each economy

beyond the home, including the community, this Commonwealth

and the country.

(11) It is the responsibility of the Commonwealth to

provide for and maintain the conditions necessary to public

stability. Those conditions include a robust, publicly funded

child care system that is available, conveniently accessible

and free to all Pennsylvanians.

(12) The current landscape of child care funding,

affordability, availability and demand within this

Commonwealth constitutes a market failure. Private markets

alone have not adequately resolved these deficiencies,

resulting in a persistent gap between the child care needs of

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