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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.

Lessons for Reporting on Child Care – A Glimpse Into the Future

Rebecca Gale·October 12, 2022·5 min read

A former editor of mine, while editing a policy-heavy story that needed more depth, lamented the demise of beat reporting....

Let’s Talk About the Encouraging COVID Experience of U.S. Child Care Programs

Elliot Haspel·August 28, 2020·7 min read

One of the most frustrating aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic is the need to act with incomplete information, like driving...

Making the Bipartisan Case for Child Care: the Industry that Keeps America Working

Mark Swartz·September 9, 2020·4 min read

Bipartisanship is increasingly rare these days, but even before the pandemic, child care was an issue that could reliably, occasionally,...

Martha’s Vineyard: Child Care Solutions for a Picturesque Locale

Mark Swartz·October 20, 2021·4 min read

Martha’s Vineyard, an island south of Cape Cod, Mass., has long been known as a resort community for prosperous Black families as well as a gathering place for Democratic Party leaders and supporters. There’s more to the picture, however, than summertime wealth and power. A recent report based on the American Communities Survey described “a continuing housing crisis and some of the deeply ingrained inequality affecting the rest of the country.”

Michigan’s First of Its Kind Program Shares Child Care Costs Between the State, Employers and Employees

Bryce Covert·October 5, 2021·7 min read

As a state representative in Michigan, Greg VanWoerkom has gone on a lot of tours of local businesses to find...

Mighty, Mighty Bosses

Florida Executives Apply Peer Pressure to Advance Early Childhood

Mark Swartz·October 23, 2020·3 min read

“We as a nation are taking parenting seriously for the first time,” economic researcher Martha Gimbel recently told The Washington...

More Bad News for Child Care: The Importance of Not Looking Away

Our Broken Child Care System and How to Fix It, Part 2

The Editors·May 20, 2020·8 min read

In this three-part series, Dr. Laura Justice—executive director of the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy at The...

Child Care Crisis

Lessons for Reporting on Child Care – A Glimpse Into the Future

Let’s Talk About the Encouraging COVID Experience of U.S. Child Care Programs

Making the Bipartisan Case for Child Care: the Industry that Keeps America Working

Martha’s Vineyard: Child Care Solutions for a Picturesque Locale

Michigan’s First of Its Kind Program Shares Child Care Costs Between the State, Employers and Employees

Mighty, Mighty Bosses

More Bad News for Child Care: The Importance of Not Looking Away

National Women’s Law Center’s #WeAretheBackbone Campaign Gives Voice to Child Care Workers

Neighborhood Villages: Boston-Based Child Care Innovation Lab for Solutions that Can Scale

Neighborhood Villages: The Pathway to Professionalism is Paved with Apprenticeships

Elliot’s Provocations: Bring on School-Aged Care

5 Questions for the Governor: Oklahoma’s Kevin Stitt

Rhythm, Blues and the Revolutionary Power of Creativity

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