Decades before the Covid pandemic, Ai-jen Poo realized that domestic workers who care for children and the elderly had few...
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.
Early on in the recently released documentary Through The Night, Deloris “Nunu” Hogan circles up the group of children under...
Imagine you are building a car. You invest in a solid chassis, make sure the wheels are inflated, oil the...
“Families are maxed out,” says Myra Jones-Taylor. “Not just children, but their parents and the support networks they rely upon.”...
The United States has finally decided to invest serious resources in our children. It just took a pandemic for it...
After signing a $1.9 trillion relief bill into law, President Joe Biden is taking on his next big policy priority:...
The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan signed into law by President Joe Biden has been lauded as a “force for...
The “Child Care For Working Families Act”: Transition Fuel for Universal Child Care (3-Part Series, Part 1)
Series: Which Path Forward?: Analyzing the Flurry of Federal Child Care Proposals
When I declared on this site a few months back that “The Era of Child Care Incrementalism Is Over,” I had no idea how much April would prove the point. Not only is the White House gearing up to release the American Families Plan -- which will include, per the Washington Post, over $400 billion in early care & education funding -- but on Thursday, Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Bobby Scott reintroduced a new iteration of the Child Care For Working Families Act (CCWFA).
Universal child care is getting a turn in the spotlight. President Joe Biden has proposed universal preschool for all American...
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...