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Governor Josh Shapiro visited The Perception Training Center in Pottsville, Schuylkill County to highlight the Governor's 2025-26 proposed budget, which builds on his efforts to make child care more affordable by expanding and strengthening the child care workforce. Governor Shapiro has worked to make child care more affordable over his first two years - and this year's budget proposal works to make child care more available for Pennsylvania families.
The budget proposal builds on Governor Shapiro's first two budgets with a $55 million investment in workforce recruitment and retention grants to increase child care availability and pay these dedicated workers more. These grants would provide an additional $1,000 annually per employee working in licensed child care centers in the Child Care Works (CCW) Program. Since taking office, Governor Shapiro has expanded the Child and Dependent Care Enhancement Tax Credit, delivering $136 million in savings to over 218,000 families, and created the Employer Child Care Contribution Tax Credit to help businesses contribute to employees' child care costs. These initiatives have been key in helping to make child care more affordable for families all across the Commonwealth.
"My budget proposal places a special emphasis on workforce development - addressing growing workforce shortages across several critical sectors, including child care," said Governor Shapiro. "Right now, we have 3,000 unfilled jobs in child care centers across Pennsylvania and when families can't find safe, affordable child care for their kids, it forces them out of our workforce and hurts our economy. That's why my budget includes $55 million to give child care workers in Pennsylvania at least $1,000 in recruitment or retention bonuses to invest in our workforce and solve this problem."
Speaker list:
Michelle Dallago, Owner and Executive Director of Perception Early Learning, Inc.
Governor Josh Shapiro
Meridith Driscoll, Parent
Bob Carl, President and CEO of the Schuylkill Chamber of Commerce
Senator David Argall
Representative Tim Twardzik
Crisis is over, the other official on my right, was saying out loud, "What he heck is he doing there!"
Governor Shapiro and Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) Secretary Dr. Latika Davis-Jones visited Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Bradford County to highlight the Governor's 2025-26 proposed budget, which strengthens his commitment to addressing Pennsylvania's rural health care workforce shortage and supporting rural hospitals.
The Governor's budget proposal makes targeted investments to expand the health care workforce, ensure rural communities have access to care, and help to keep hospitals open. It includes $10 million to support rural hospitals facing service cuts or closures and expands loan repayment programs for health care workers, simialr to the successful substance use disorder (SUD) loan repayment program at DDAP. Since taking office, the Shapiro Administration has successfully invested more than $40 million in helping nearly 675 professionals working in Pennsylvania's drug and alcohol field through DDAP's student loan repayment program.
"Here in Pennsylvania, we are facing shortages of health care professionals - especially in our rural communities." said Governor Shapiro. "My budget takes concrete steps to recruit more health care providers and incentivize them to work in great communities like this one in Bradford County. By strengthening our rural health care workforce pipelines, my Administration is taking action to support the dedicated professionals who care for our communities and ensure no one is left behind."
List of Speakers:
Guthrie Clinic President and CEO Dr. Edmund Sabanegh
Kevin Gibbs, a former patient at Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital
Governor Shapiro
Secretary Dr. Latika Davis-Jones, Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP)
Barbara Vanaskie, SUD loan repayment program awardee
Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacey Garrity,
Deb Raupers, Chief Nurse Executive for Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital
Senator Gene Yaw,
Representative Tina Pickett