{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.justice.senate.gov/press-releases/senators-justice-warner-introduce-bipartisan-bill-child-care-supply-tax-credit-act-of-2025", "Senators\u00a0Justice, Warner Introduce Bipartisan Bill,\u00a0Child Care Supply Tax Credit Act\u00a0of 2025", "2025-12-22", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "Senate", "WV", "James C. Justice", "J000312", "www.justice.senate.gov", "justice", "https://www.justice.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Recently, Senator Jim Justice (R-WV) and Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) introduced S.3534, the Child Care Supply Tax Credit Act of 2025, to address the nationwide childcare shortage and increase childcare supply for families across the country:\n\n\u201cChildcare providers simply can\u2019t afford to pay their workers enough without passing those high costs on to parents. Families in West Virginia and across the country are spending thousands of dollars just to secure reliable childcare \u2013 it must be addressed. By creating a targeted tax credit tied directly to caregiver wages, we can pay the people who take care of our kids what they deserve while giving our hard-working families some breathing room,\u201d said Senator Jim Justice.\n\n\u201cFrom health care premiums to groceries to utility bills, life is only getting more and more expensive for American families, and for many, the math simply doesn\u2019t work without affordable child care. Child care is the foundation that allows parents to earn a living while providing kids with the head start they deserve. I\u2019m proud to introduce this bipartisan legislation to address the workforce challenges contributing to our nation\u2019s child care crisis,\u201d said Senator Mark Warner.\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nChildcare providers operate on razor-thin margins; therefore, they typically can\u2019t pay their workers well. But families can only afford to pay so much for childcare, meaning providers can\u2019t raise their prices to offer competitive wages. Poor pay leads to high turnover, difficulty attracting qualified staff, centers operating below licensed capacity, and even facilities permanently closing\u2014only adding to the childcare shortage. In West Virginia alone, families need an additional 20,000 childcare spots.\n\nThe Child Care Supply Tax Credit Act of 2025 creates a new tax credit for eligible childcare providers to help offset the cost of employee wages, allowing providers to increase worker wages, retain talent, and increase childcare supply.\n\nThe general business tax credit is equal to five percent of their childcare worker base wage\u2014meaning all wages paid to employees that provide direct care to children. In rural regions\u2014practically all of West Virginia\u2014centers would be eligible to receive a tax credit worth seven percent.\n\nThe bill allows the credit to be paid directly to nonprofit providers, like churches, and in-home daycares.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.justice.senate.gov/press-releases/senators-justice-warner-introduce-bipartisan-bill-child-care-supply-tax-credit-act-of-2025"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0658518876880407, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}