More Information

• Texas Jobs Snapshot for 2012
• Testimony: Senate Committee on Business and Commerce
• New Texas Poverty and Uninsured Numbers Make the Path Forward Clear

• Texas at Work: Today and Tomorrow
• The Texas Early Care and Education Crunch: Senate Bills 75 and 76 Help All Texans Access Child Care
• HB 804: The "Hard Work Equals Poverty" Bill

Child Care and the 77th Legislature

The 77th Texas Legislature passed several child care bills this session. However, the big stories remain the continued underfunding of child care for working poor families within the state budget and looming growth in the state's waiting list of 41,000 children.