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Florida’s Early Learning centers will start seeing 32 million federal stimulus dollars in the next few weeks. It’s part of a total 105 million to provide quality child care so people can go back to work. The funds target low income working families.Lt. Governor Jeff Kottkamp says the money will also keep child care workers employed.

“Sometimes the cost of childcare, without a program like this, would be so cost prohibitive that they would be better off financially for someone to just not work,” Kottkamp said. “But having programs like this allows people to get back in the workforce and at the same time the parent has the confidence knowing that their child is in a quality program.”

The money is enough to provide early learning for about 20 thousand kids. There are still 58 thousand children on the waiting list for early learning programs.