Vaccine programs, child day care, and Head Start all will benefit from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act economic stimulus package, the Obama administration said. As part of the stimulus package, the federal government will use $300 million to promote immunization, purchase vaccines, and distribute them through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's immunization program. In addition, states will receive $2 billion from the stimulus package to pay for day care and expand facilities providing it. And the Head Start and Early Head Start programs will gain access to $2.1 billion grants that could expand coverage to more than 70,000 children, infants, pregnant women, and their families. Head Start will receive a separate $235 million increase in funding for 2009 through the stimulus package, the Obama administration said.
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