Oct 16, 2026 · 9 min · 15 segments
More than 100 organizations helping with city homeless situation, city's Prop B would create sales tax for quality child care, ATF surge in St. Louis area is over, city police chief said ATF surge…
So we are working really hard with childcare providers, with parents, with childcare advocates to, uh, work to create policies and to create funding to make childcare more affordable for families, and also to make sure the childcare workforce is paid living wages.
Cooksey says there are about 20,000 children under the age of five in the city who are living in poverty.
If Prop B passes, she says it would create a half-cent sales tax that would generate about $22 million a year in sustainable funding for early childhood education.
So we are working really hard with childcare providers, with parents, with childcare advocates to, uh, work to create policies and to create funding to make childcare more affordable for families, and also to make sure the childcare workforce is paid living wages.
Cooksey says there are about 20,000 children under the age of five in the city who are living in poverty.
If Prop B passes, she says it would create a half-cent sales tax that would generate about $22 million a year in sustainable funding for early childhood education.
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