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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.

OPINION: Let’s Not Throw Out Market Rate Surveys Just Yet: Funding Child Care in Today’s World

Dr. Theresa Hawley·February 17, 2023·4 min read

The child care market in the U.S. is broken. Despite rising prices for care, child care workers continue to make...

Taking Care of Kids Makes Balancing Work and Life Harder — Particularly for Moms, Poll Finds

Jennifer Gerson and Jasmine Mithani·September 16, 2022·6 min read

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.

Early Childhood Policy Meets Early Childhood Science, Part 4: On The Future of Early Learning

Elliot Haspel·April 30, 2020·5 min read

Author’s Note: This moment, when the world has stopped spinning on its axis, presents an important opportunity to re-examine our...

Sharing the Findings from Better Life Lab: Improving Child Care Assistance and Investment

Part 4 of a 5-Part Series

Rebecca Gale·August 23, 2022·10 min read

Our country is in a child care crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, which has shown how difficult it is for...

For Young Children, a RAPID Response to the Pandemic

Mark Swartz·June 4, 2020·4 min read

The Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development, or RAPID project, gathers essential information on unmet needs and health-promoting behaviors for...

Bank Street Makes the Case for Compensation

Puts Pay at the Center of the Child Care Dialogue

Mark Swartz·December 15, 2020·3 min read

It isn’t the 1950s anymore. The reality before and, presumably, after the pandemic, is that parents are outside of home...

Build Back Better Helps, Not Hurts, Faith-Based Child Care

Critics are Overselling the Changes While Religious Programs Fight for Their Lives

Elliot Haspel·December 2, 2021·7 min read

While the investments in early care and education appear broadly safe, one unresolved design question concerns what should be required of child care programs operated by faith communities.

As a federal plan to make child care affordable languishes in Congress, New York City has joined the growing number...

Child Care Crisis

OPINION: Let’s Not Throw Out Market Rate Surveys Just Yet: Funding Child Care in Today’s World

Taking Care of Kids Makes Balancing Work and Life Harder — Particularly for Moms, Poll Finds

Early Childhood Policy Meets Early Childhood Science, Part 4: On The Future of Early Learning

Sharing the Findings from Better Life Lab: Improving Child Care Assistance and Investment

For Young Children, a RAPID Response to the Pandemic

Bank Street Makes the Case for Compensation

Build Back Better Helps, Not Hurts, Faith-Based Child Care

5 Top Takeaways from the Conversation: Early Childhood Philanthropic Leaders Discuss Deploying Risk Capital

Can the Congressional Dads Caucus Help Break the Logjam on Family-Friendly Policies?

New York City’s 60-year-old Fight for Universal Child Care

Elliot’s Provocations: Voter Support for Child Care Is Sky-High Yet Butter-Soft

5 Questions for the Governor: Oklahoma’s Kevin Stitt

Author Bruce Perry and the Neuroscience Insights We Need Today

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