As a state representative in Michigan, Greg VanWoerkom has gone on a lot of tours of local businesses to find...
Child care workers are the backbone of the economy and a smart new campaign from the National Women’s Law Center...
Universal Child Care May be Coming to Vermont
Could Provide a Blueprint for Success in Other States
In a nation where patchwork child care infrastructure has been wrecked by 18 months of pandemic, the state of Vermont...
Every city-dweller has lived or witnessed some version of it: the mom on a bus struggling to fold a stroller...
Launched in London in 1844 and in Boston seven years later, the YMCA has the benefits and drawbacks of a...
What if, as a counterpart to public school districts for children five and under, we had “early childhood districts” adapted...
Last fall, I wrote about upEND, a new project focused on addressing structural inequities in the country’s child welfare system....
State Roundup: The Summer of Child Care Innovations
New Mexico, Illinois and Connecticut Provide Cross-Section of States Making Bold Moves
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously said that states are the “laboratories of democracy.” It turns out they are the...
Connecticut Becomes First State in Nation for Baby Bonds
Helps Tackle Generational Poverty in Low-Income Families
Connecticut just took an unprecedented step: on June 30 it became the first state in the country to create baby...
Earlier this month, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof hailed “an enormous body of research showing that the greatest leverage...
Those following the debates regarding President Biden’s historic child care proposal may be experiencing whiplash. On the one hand, a...
In one form or another, all 50 states and the District of Columbia recognize the importance of early education and...
