In 2012, Robin Hood partnered with the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University to launch the Poverty...
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.
Home-based child care, including licensed Family Child Care (FCC), is an ideal solution for many families, including those who work...
Among the myriad economic effects on U.S. families stemming from the Great Recession, austerity measures implemented in many states also...
New York City’s 60-year-old Fight for Universal Child Care
Today’s Activists Are Part of A Long, Historic Struggle. Will They Succeed?
As a federal plan to make child care affordable languishes in Congress, New York City has joined the growing number...
U.S. child care is broken. Centers and other businesses are closing. Educators are finding work in other fields with better...
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...
The United States has finally decided to invest serious resources in our children. It just took a pandemic for it...
COVID-19 is a bizarre disease that defies easy answers. It impacts the lungs – except when it doesn’t. It brutalizes...
As anyone knows who reads Early Learning Nation, not to mention any major newspaper or magazine, child care has dangerously...
This is why we can’t have nice things. Finally, at long last, bipartisan momentum is building towards an affordable, accessible,...