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A new report from the Chronicle for Social Change finds the cost of childcare as a primary hardship for working foster parents, and a major barrier for recruiting new parents into the state’s overburdened foster care system.

LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl is proposing $31 million of child welfare funds to aid in the care of infants and toddlers. She said child care is one of the top barriers to placing children in this age group.

“Over the past decade, we lost almost half of the number of applicants we used to have,” Kuehl tells Take Two’s Alex Cohen.