Full Text of HR0497 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, In response to fast-growing defense industries | 3 | | during World War II, Congress passed the Defense Housing and | 4 | | Communities Facilities and Services Act of October 1940, 54 | 5 | | Stat. 1125 (commonly known as the Lanham Act), to fund various | 6 | | national defense public works projects; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, One of the public works projects funded under the | 8 | | Lanham Act concerned the construction and maintenance of child | 9 | | care facilities nationwide in communities that lacked | 10 | | sufficient child care services to meet the growing demand for | 11 | | women to enter the workforce and contribute to the nation's war | 12 | | production effort; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, The child care program implemented under the | 14 | | Lanham Act operated from 1943 to 1946 and provided funding not | 15 | | only for the construction of child care facilities, but also to | 16 | | help cover the costs associated with teacher training | 17 | | activities, teacher salaries, and meal services provided at | 18 | | child care facilities; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Although the child care program implemented under | 20 | | the Lanham Act was viewed as a temporary practical solution to | 21 | | the economic and social demands placed on families, | 22 | | specifically mothers with children, during World War II, many |
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| 1 | | child care advocates consider the Lanham Act a turning point in | 2 | | this country's long-standing policy on child care because it | 3 | | created the first, and only, federally subsidized child care | 4 | | program for children regardless of family income; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Many child care advocates have studied the social | 6 | | and economic implications of the child care policy established | 7 | | under the Lanham Act and have argued that it increased maternal | 8 | | employment as well as children's educational attainment, labor | 9 | | force participation, and earnings as adults; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, In light of these positive outcomes, child care | 11 | | advocates have called for a return to the child care policy | 12 | | established in the Lanham Act and for a permanent commitment by | 13 | | the federal government to make affordable and high-quality | 14 | | child care services accessible for all working families; | 15 | | therefore, be it
| 16 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 17 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 18 | | respectfully urge Congress to pass legislation in support of | 19 | | universal child care services for working families and to | 20 | | provide sufficient and sustainable funding for a permanent | 21 | | child care program similar to the federally administered | 22 | | program created and implemented under the Lanham Act of 1940; | 23 | | and be it further |
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That after adoption, suitable copies of this | 2 | | resolution be delivered to the Speaker and Minority Leader of | 3 | | the United States House of Representatives, the Majority and | 4 | | Minority
Leaders of the United States Senate, and the members | 5 | | of the
Illinois congressional delegation.
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