Khulood Jamil never shut the doors of her home child care in California’s Bay Area in the early days of...
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.
As the debate rages over proposals to improve U.S. child care, several commentators— mostly self-described conservatives—have pointed to Quebec’s child...
“Families are maxed out,” says Myra Jones-Taylor. “Not just children, but their parents and the support networks they rely upon.”...
Originally published by The 19th; republished here with permission under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Nearly one in 4 parents...
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
A Top Priority for Generation Z? Child Care
New Survey Shows Generation Z Values Child Care as a Leading Workplace Benefit
Kelly Choi crunched the numbers on child care, and the results didn’t look good. Like the majority (66 percent) of...
In this two-part series, Elliot Haspel explores how one Oregon region mobilized to generate an innovative, next-generation plan for universal...
Decades before the Covid pandemic, Ai-jen Poo realized that domestic workers who care for children and the elderly had few...
American Rescue Plan Act Funds Are On The Way to Help Child Care Providers – But Will it Be Enough?
Blacksburg, Virginia has money allocated to give child care providers a much-needed pay boost, but for some it may be too late.
Lourdie believes she has found her life’s work as a child care worker. She loves her work in the infant-toddler...
An Electoral “Children’s Wave”
Q&A with Children's Funding Project Founder Elizabeth Gaines
On November 3rd, seven early childhood ballot initiatives went before voters in cities and counties around the nation. All seven...