Making Child Care Affordable
Roy Cooper would lower the cost of child care by expanding the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit, putting money in the pockets of working families to help pay for their child care, ensuring we increase the number of qualified, quality child care providers, and making it easier for employers to help you afford child care, too.
- Expand the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit to support working families and put money back in people’s pockets.
- Grow and support the child care workforce. Increase the quality and supply of childcare by investing in apprenticeships for child care workers and paying better wages.
- Cut unnecessary red tape that keeps child care facilities expensive – like requiring they provide packaged food instead of preparing fresh fruit – while prioritizing child safety.
- Encourage employers to help employees with child care by providing employer tax credits for on-site child care or employee child care subsidies.
What is Roy Cooper’s plan on child care?
Roy plans to expand the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit to put money back in the pockets of working families. He also supports growing the child care workforce, lowering the cost of child care by increasing the amount of quality care offered. He’d also cut unnecessary red tape that makes child care facilities more expensive, while encouraging companies to help their employees with child care by providing tax credits and other child care subsidies.
Does Roy Cooper have a plan to make child care more affordable?
Yes. Roy Cooper’s plan to make child care more affordable would help working families pay for child care directly through tax credits and increased employee benefits, and would help increase the number of affordable child care providers by investing in apprenticeships and cutting unnecessary red tape for child care facilities.
Last updated: 9/5/2026