Cuts to State’s Child Care System Have Created a Perfect Storm

Cuts to state’s child care system have created a perfect storm

Indiana’s child care system serves as critical support for the state’s economy. It is also under enormous strain.

Cuts to the state’s child care system have created the perfect storm. Indiana must fix it.

Hoosiers protest child care voucher cuts in front of the Indiana Statehouse, in Indianapolis, on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. (Photo by Leslie Bonilla Muñiz/Indiana Capital Chronicle)Indiana’s child care system serves as critical support for the state’s economy. It is also under enormous strain. Wait lists, caps on enrollment for vulnerable children, an end to child care referral supports, and cuts to reimbursement rates further erode the shoreline on…