Originally published by The 19th; republished here with permission under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Nearly one in 4 parents...
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.
How Child Care in Oregon is Saving the Construction Trade
Statewide apprenticeship program with generous child care subsidies also trains and recruits workers
There has been a construction boom in Oregon. Demand in the trade continues to rise yet 90 percent of construction...
The laws of supply and demand have never quite applied to child care, and no state exemplifies this conundrum as...
Every time Emmy Thibodeaux drops off or picks up her two-year-old son at child care, there’s a situation being managed,...
The early child care education workforce was strained even before the pandemic. Poor pay and benefits not only hurt recruitment...
Deborah VanderGaast originally started running a child care business out of her home in Tipton, Iowa in 2005 serving children...
The child care landscape throughout the U.S. can put just about anyone in a grim frame of mind. The problems...
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...
A new report commissioned by the Early Educator Investment Collaborative—Mary Pauper: A Historical Exploration of Early Care and Education Compensation,...
A former editor of mine, while editing a policy-heavy story that needed more depth, lamented the demise of beat reporting....