Subsidies

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is weeks behind in paying subsidies for child care centers and families. Centers already were facing financial issues.

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 20, 2011 - Missouri is contemplating handing out as much as $360 million in subsidies to create…

Thousands of low-income parents would see their state child-care subsidies reduced under a budget plan passed by a Missouri Senate committee.The plan…