It’s hard enough to find child care in this country that is dependable and affordable when working a regular 9...
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.
Will Biden’s First Term Have a Lasting Impact on the Child Care Sector?
New Annual Budget Devotes $600 Billion Over 10 Years to Child Care and Early Childhood Education
The race to elect the next president hasn’t officially started, but soon President Joe Biden will turn toward defending his...
The number of investor-backed, for-profit child care chains in the United States has been growing in recent years, creating additional...
Early education advocates cheered when President Biden’s State of the Union address noted that children who attend preschool are nearly...
Southern Living magazine calls it the South’s Best College Town, but Athens-Clark County also has its challenges, including a 30%...
Jennifer Trippett remembers the signs going up. In late 2021, fast food restaurants in the Bridgeport, West Virginia area announced...
“There is growing agreement on the need for more highly skilled child care teachers and an increased awareness that teachers...
The child care market in the U.S. is broken. Despite rising prices for care, child care workers continue to make...
Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy made headlines and history when it took 15 rounds of votes for his...
Originally published by The 19th; republished here with permission under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Nearly one in 4 parents...