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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."
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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...
Quality Journalism Needed to Shift Attitudes on Child Care
Takeaways from the Better Life Lab Child Care Innovation Reporting Grants
It began with Build Back Better. Well, truthfully, it has been a decades-long push for many advocacy organizations to put...
Reframing Caregiving Leave as an Opportunity at Work, Not a Liability
MH WorkLife’s “Care At Work Summit NYC” Focuses on Strengthening Resilience, Elevating Care, Transforming Workplaces
We’re doing it wrong. When it comes to taking a paid leave to care for oneself or a family member,...
Dr. María E. Enchautegui had noticed a pattern. Puerto Rico had a very low labor force participation as compared to...
Claudia Goldin, recent Nobel Prize winner and the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, is a trailblazer who...
A graphic story on the child care cliff and end of ARPA funding for child care