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Child Care Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on our already fragile child care system. Providers have closed, others are struggling, and everyone it seems is realizing that without child care, America can’t get back to work. (Yes, child care is infrastructure.) Early Learning Nation is covering the field with rigor and nuance from a historical perspective (Universal Child Care was a great success during WWII), to the latest legislative proposals and to ways that we must transform the way we treat our undervalued and largely unseen child care workforce. 

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Florida Executives Apply Peer Pressure to Advance Early Childhood

Mark Swartz··3 min read
“We as a nation are taking parenting seriously for the first time,” economic researcher Martha Gimbel recently told The Washington...
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Martha’s Vineyard: Child Care Solutions for a Picturesque Locale

Mark Swartz··4 min read
Martha’s Vineyard, an island south of Cape Cod, Mass., has long been known as a resort community for prosperous Black families as well as a gathering place for Democratic Party leaders and supporters. There’s more to the picture, however, than summertime wealth and power. A recent report based on the American Communities Survey described “a continuing housing crisis and some of the deeply ingrained inequality affecting the rest of the country.”
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How COVID Shaped Child Care and Early Learning

The pandemic temporarily devastated American child care. Five years later, a number of effects have rebounded, but experts say challenges persist.

Kendra Hurley··8 min read
In March 2020, when states and cities ordered widespread school closures in hopes of curbing the spread of COVID-19, many...
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