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Market Rates: Policy Advocacy

Empire Justice Comments on the Emergency Reduction of the Enhanced Market Rate for Legally Exempt Child Care Providers
This letter is regarding the emergency rulemaking amendment to 18 NYCRR 415.9 that reduces the reimbursement rate for legally-exempt in home and family child care providers. Read More

Empire Justice Center Testimony on Budget issues in Health, Education, Higher Education, and Social Services
We urge you to use the level of funding allocated for the provision of essential services such as civil legal assistance, welfare benefits, child care and disability assistance and the availability of health coverage to low income and disenfranchised New Yorkers as the yardstick by which you measure the quality of the budget proposal. Read More

Empire Justice Comments on Public Assistance and Child Care Laws
Empire Justice submits concerns and recommendations to the Office of Children and Family Services regarding current regulations. Read More

Empire Justice Center Testimony On Access to Quality Child Care
Testimony presented to New York State Assembly Committees on Labor, Children and Families, and Social Services on Access to Quality Child Care Read More

Empire Justice Center Testimony on Child Care Development Fund Plan
Testimony on the NYS Draft Child Care Development Fund Plan for FFY 2008-2009 Read More

Empire Justice Comments on Health & Safety Standards for Informal Child Care Providers
Children who receive subsidized child care in New York State should be assured that only quality child care is purchased with public dollars. Read More

Empire Justice Comments on Proposed Market Rate Regulations for Child Care Providers
Expresses concerns regarding the proposed market rate regulations for child care providers: 18 NYCRR 415.6 and 415.7 Read More