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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.

OPINION: Three Evidence-Based Ways to Support the Early Care and Education Workforce

JoAnn Hsueh·October 21, 2021·3 min read

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated inequities and fragilities inherent in existing child care markets and decimated the supply of child care...

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.”

Child Care Crisis

OPINION: Three Evidence-Based Ways to Support the Early Care and Education Workforce

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

OPINION: Families Are in Crisis. Business, Government and Philanthropy All Need to Step Up

Preschool Expulsions Shine Light on Inadequate Pay, Lack of Resources, Absence of Support Systems

The Raising Child Care Fund: Centering the Most Impacted Voices

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

Child Tax Credit Dramatically Cuts Child Poverty; Can It Become Permanent?

Working from Home in West Virginia, Championing #PaidLeaveforAll in Her Spare Time

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

New Report Provides Data, Illuminates Opportunities and Challenges for Home-based Pre-K Providers

Elliot’s Provocations: Offering Child Care Educators Free Child Care: A Stopgap Measure with Legs

5 Questions for the Governor: Oklahoma’s Kevin Stitt

More Than Meets the Eye: Jeremiah Program’s Chastity Lord

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