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Published: Friday, November 06, 2015 11:43 AM

Lake County News-Sun, Nov. 5, 2015 | Original article
By Frank Abderholden
Two state legislators from Lake County are pushing a bill to reinstate child care benefits that were curtailed in an emergency executive order signed by Gov. Bruce Rauner earlier this year.
With Senate Bill 570 scheduled for its third house vote next week, state Sen. Melinda Bush, D-Grayslake, and state Rep. Rita Mayfield, D-Waukegan, got together in Gurnee on Thursday to sign a pledge in support of the bill.
"You have a single mom going to work doing the right thing, but if she makes minimum wage (during a 40-hour work week) she is making too much money (to receive child care assistance). So what are you going to do?" Bush asked. "She's trying to do the right thing, and we're saying to her, 'Stay at home and collect welfare.'
"We want to be the hand-up and not the hand-out state," added Bush, explaining that about 90 percent of the people who used to be eligible now don't qualify due to the governor's action July 1. "It's a temporary hand-up program, one the Republicans started. You can only receive it for a limited time."
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