Last week, Gov. Kim Reynolds launched a new Statewide Solutions fund to extend the Child Care Assistance pilot program. This fund allows individuals and Iowa businesses to contribute funds to boost child care workforce wages. She also introduced a Continuum of Care grant that will support partnerships between preschool programs and licensed child care centers to offer full-day care for 4-year-olds. “When individuals, businesses and government all work together to solve a problem, Iowans benefit. Nowhere is this more evident than in child care,” Reynolds said in a release. To read more about these programs, click here.