Staying
Employed:
Trends in
Medicaid, Child Care,
and Head
Start in Ohio
Policy Matters Ohio and the Institute for
Women’s Policy Research have jointly released a new issue brief which
documents trends in Ohio child and health care funding, and reviews research
showing that subsidized child and health care can help low-wage parents stay
employed. Staying Employed: Trends in Medicaid, Child Care, and
Head Start in Ohio finds that Ohio expanded eligibility and
expenditures for Medicaid, child care and state-funded Head Start in the
late 1990s, but that more recently cuts have been implemented and
threatened. Given national research demonstrating that such programs help
low-wage parents remain in the workforce, Policy Matters and IWPR recommend
maintaining current levels of Medicaid services and eligibility, restoring
child care assistance to previous eligibility and co-payment levels, and
restoring state-funded Head Start to previous participation levels.
Executive Summary
Full
Report
Institute for Women's Policy Research Website
