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Many employers are increasingly recognizing that childcare issues are workforce issues, but the support the public sector can provide to businesses seeking to invest in it is limited, at least at the federal level.
Though there are some federal childcare policies, they’re “not nearly enough,” said Brian Gutman, director of government relations for childcare company the Learning Care Group, in a recent panel at the Society for Human Resource Management’s annual conference in Chicago. Incentives such as the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) tax credit for employer-provided childcare, which was originally enacted in 2001, are “important” but “woefully out of date,” he