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States boost child care money as congressional effort stalls

FILE - Mary Corigliano reads to her universal prekindergarten class at Conkling Elementary, Feb. 23, 2015 in Utica, N.Y. Some states have moved ahead with plans of their own to boost child care subsidies after a national effort by Democrats in Washington stalled. New York lawmakers passed a state budget in the spring that calls for it to spend $7 billion making child care more affordable over the next four years. (AP Photo/ Observer-Dispatch, Mark DiOrio, file)

FILE - Children from a nearby daycare are escorted in Marcus Garvey Park in the Harlem neighborhood of New York Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007. Some states have moved ahead with plans of their own to boost child care subsidies after a national effort by Democrats in Washington stalled. New York lawmakers passed a state budget in the spring that calls for it to spend $7 billion making child care more affordable over the next four years. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

States boost child care money as congressional effort stalls