During her convention speech last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren, sitting in a now closed child care center, spoke about the...
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.
On Tomorrow’s Ballot, New Mexico Votes on Funding Universal Child Care
Q and A with a New Mexico Child Care Policy Expert
New Mexico made national headlines in the spring of 2022 when Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham waived child care subsidy copays...
The Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act: The Boldest Plan On Offer Is Quietly Received (3-Part Series, Part 2)
Series: Which Path Forward?: Analyzing the Flurry of Federal Child Care Proposals
Sen. Elizabeth Warren was in many ways the match that lit the current child care moment. Before the world had...
One of the most frustrating aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic is the need to act with incomplete information, like driving...
The United States has finally decided to invest serious resources in our children. It just took a pandemic for it...
It’s a cruel irony of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic: the youngest children, whose brains depend on education for healthy brain...
One of “Aesop’s Fables” goes like this: “A group of pigeons, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon...
A new report from New America, Pandemic Planning for Distance Learning, laments the failure of school districts across the country...
Child care workers are the backbone of the economy and a smart new campaign from the National Women’s Law Center...
The challenge mothers in particular face isn’t new — but it is complex and was only exacerbated by the pandemic. A new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll sheds light on the issue.