Home - Early Learning Nation

As Pandemic Funding Ends, New Survey Shows Parents Facing Host of Child Care Challenges

Families struggling with rising child care prices, unexpected closures and scarcity of providers.

Parents across the nation are struggling to access affordable and reliable child care almost five years after the start of the pandemic — a phenomenon that new survey data suggests may be worsening as stimulus funds expire. One-third of parents recently surveyed by The National Women’s Law Center reported their child care costs rose over the past year, following the expiration of the first batch of pandemic-era child care funding. Among parents of kids under...

As Pandemic Funding Ends, New Survey Shows Parents Facing Host of Child Care Challenges

Families struggling with rising child care prices, unexpected closures and scarcity of providers.

Parents across the nation are struggling to access affordable and reliable child care almost five years after the start of the pandemic — a phenomenon that new survey data suggests may be worsening as stimulus funds expire. One-third of parents recently surveyed by The National Women’s Law Center reported their...

Explore our series:

Elliot Haspel unpacks current events and explores possibilities for flourishing futures

Groundbreaking research—from neuroscience, policy and practice—that increases knowledge and helps create more equitable communities and lives

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION

An unprecedented degree of investor activity is creating a cascade of risks for the sector, risks which threaten the path toward an inclusive child care system which works well for all children, parents, and early educators.

Reporting on the fragile systems of American child care, solutions and advances

Highlighting how innovators build and sustain global communities from the ground up

Recaps from important conversations, town halls, webinars and virtual events from the Early Learning field

More recent news from the early learning world:

Get the latest in early learning science, community and more:

Join us