Child care tax credits, a top priority for Missouri governor, face uphill battle in the Senate

For the second year in a row, the fate of a bill creating new child care tax credits — one of Gov. Mike Parson’s top legislative priorities — is in the hands of a faction of Republicans in the Missouri Senate. Designed to help improve access and affordability of child care, the package of child care tax credits has received bipartisan support and was the first bill approved by the House this year. But that bill, sponsored by Republican state Rep. Brenda Shields of St. Joseph, stalled in…...