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Child Care Down on the Farm

Elliot Haspel·Aug 1, 2024·5 min read

The child care movement needs a broad base of support in order to win an effective, publicly-funded system. Now, a new research paper is opening another door by showing how child care is impacting that most respected of American icons: farmers.

Build Back Better Helps, Not Hurts, Faith-Based Child Care

Critics are Overselling the Changes While Religious Programs Fight for Their Lives

Elliot Haspel·Dec 2, 2021·7 min read

While the investments in early care and education appear broadly safe, one unresolved design question concerns what should be required of child care programs operated by faith communities.

KinderCare Is Now Trading on the Stock Market. What Does That Mean for the Future of American Child Care?

KinderCare, which serves nearly 200,000 children across the country, recently hit the public market.

Elliot Haspel·Dec 3, 2024·6 min read

There was a major shift in the child care landscape in October, but you’d be forgiven for not noticing unless...

Elliot’s Provocations: The Minimum Viable Child Care Fallacy

Elliot Haspel·Jul 6, 2023·17 min read

I dislike the economic case for child care. I’m not talking about my take on the role of employers, but the near-constant way lawmakers and advocates of both parties rest their case for supporting child care on its function as an economic driver.

The Child Care Sector Starts to Flex Its Muscles

Elliot Haspel·May 17, 2022·4 min read

Child care has traditionally been a politically quiet sector. I don’t mean there hasn’t been resolute advocacy, but that has largely (though certainly not entirely) happened behind the scenes -- at least in the U.S. there isn’t a long history of major public actions such as protests and strikes.