Report: 80% of eligible low-income children not served by state’s subsidized childcare programs

By: Leslie Bonilla Muñiz

Outlets: Indiana Capital Chronicle

Published: June 2, 2026

Words: 556

Last Updated: 1 month, 1 week ago

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Despite a new infusion of state money, subsidized childcare programs will be serving less than 20% of eligible Hoosier children by the end of 2026, according to an Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute analysis released Saturday.

“There are surely hundreds of thousands of Hoosier children who need childcare so that their parents can work that are not able to access this system,” the institute wrote.

The families of approximately 300,000 kids are at or below …

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