{"id":135596,"date":"2026-03-11T16:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/135596\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:46:13","slug":"shapiro-administration-members-visit-lehigh-county-highlight-budget-impact-on-childcare-western-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/135596\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapiro Administration members visit Lehigh County, highlight budget impact on childcare | Western Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOWER MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. &#8211; Members of Governor Josh Shapiro&#8217;s Administration were in Lehigh County Tuesday to show how they say his budget is strengthening the childcare industry.<\/p>\n<p>Officials with the Department of Human Services and the Office of Child Development and Early Learning visited Brookside Children\u2019s Early Education Center in Lower Macungie Township.<\/p>\n<p>They took turns reading books to the children.<\/p>\n<p>The state budget is spending tens of millions of dollars on early education. The efforts include recruiting and retaining more childcare workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. &#8211; Members of Governor Josh Shapiro&#8217;s Administration were in Lehigh County Tuesday to show&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,5957,23924,7005,62496,33,433,62497,1978],"class_list":["post-135596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-child-care","tag-childcare-workers","tag-department-of-human-services","tag-early-education","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-lehigh-county","tag-office-of-child-development-and-early-learning","tag-state-budget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}