New babies may be bundles of joy, but they also bring bundles of bills – and not every family is...
Rebecca Gale is a writer with the Better Life Lab at New America where she covers child care. Follow her on Instagram at @rebeccagalewriting, and subscribe to her Substack newsletter, "It Doesn't Have to Be This Hard."
8 Top Takeaways from the Conversation: The Future of Child Care Reporting From Those Who Cover It
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You don’t have to work in journalism to know that the field is changing rapidly. Newspapers are continuing to vanish...
Pumping the Brakes on Private Equity’s Run on Child Care
New Report by the National Women’s Law Center and Open Markets Institute
Rebecca Slaughter has a simple explanation for how private equity affects our economy: “When markets are competitively healthy, they have...
Other Countries Have Social Safety Nets: The U.S. Has Women
Q+A with author Jessica Calarco on her new book, “Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net”
Jessica Calarco is onto something. There’s a reason why women in this country feel that so much pressure rests on...
I’ve had the privilege of working with Elliot Haspel and reading his work on child care since I began reporting...
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What D.C.’s Early Childhood Educators Stand to Lose with the D.C. Pay Equity Fund Salary Cuts
Briyana Holloway remembers the shock when she saw her new paycheck. It was January 2024, and the Early Childhood Pay...
Growing the Pipeline of Early Childhood Educators
Neighborhood Villages Apprenticeship Program Graduates First Cohort and Continues to Grow
Cassandra Antoine always knew she wanted to work with children. Her goal was to open her own child care center,...
Cal Newport Thinks We Can Work Better – But Where Does Caregiving Fit In?
Q+A with Bestselling Author on How and Why Care and Work Intersect
Work and caregiving seem to exist as a yin and yang on our lives: the pull of one exerts influence...
Elliot Haspel is clear about one thing regarding business and child care: he believes that on-site child care or business-supported...
The Covid-19 pandemic ushered in unprecedented federal spending in the child care industry. When schools and child care programs shut...
In Texas, A Break for Child Care Providers Via Property Taxes
Instead of Direct Payments to Providers, a Ballot Referendum in Texas Offers a Property Tax Break
For Alejandra Gardner, it wasn’t until she began receiving funds from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) that her child...
