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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.

Great Beginnings in the Great Plains: Communities for Kids Builds Nebraska’s Child Care Infrastructure, Cultivates All Community Stakeholders

Mark Swartz·January 11, 2022·3 min read

Marti Beard is a fifth-generation rancher in addition to being vice president of Early Childhood Programs of Nebraska Children and...

Harvard’s Nonie Lesaux on the Long and Winding Road to High-Quality, Universal Child Care

Mark Swartz·March 15, 2023·6 min read

Early education advocates cheered when President Biden’s State of the Union address noted that children who attend preschool are nearly...

How Child Care in Oregon is Saving the Construction Trade

Statewide apprenticeship program with generous child care subsidies also trains and recruits workers

Rebecca Gale·January 30, 2023·4 min read

There has been a construction boom in Oregon. Demand in the trade continues to rise yet 90 percent of construction...

Innovations in Child Care Investment: Building the Case for Public and Private Funds

Part 1 of a 5-Part Series Explores Innovations in Child Care

Rebecca Gale·June 15, 2022·7 min read

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

Innovations in Child Care: Meeting Parents’ Diverse Needs and Preferences

Part 2 of a 5-Part Series

Rebecca Gale·June 30, 2022·8 min read

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

Child Care Crisis

Great Beginnings in the Great Plains: Communities for Kids Builds Nebraska’s Child Care Infrastructure, Cultivates All Community Stakeholders

Harvard’s Nonie Lesaux on the Long and Winding Road to High-Quality, Universal Child Care

How Child Care in Oregon is Saving the Construction Trade

Innovations in Child Care Investment: Building the Case for Public and Private Funds

Innovations in Child Care: Meeting Parents’ Diverse Needs and Preferences

Iowa Governor Refuses Federal Early Childhood Money Despite Child Care Crisis

Lack of High-Quality, Affordable Childcare Takes Its Toll on Parents, Workplaces, Economy

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

Elliot’s Provocations: Whither Family, Friends & Neighbor Care?

5 Questions for the Governor: Oklahoma’s Kevin Stitt

Dignity and Inclusion: Kendra Davenport on Revitalizing Easterseals’ Core Values

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