Mighty, Mighty Bosses Florida Executives Apply Peer Pressure to Advance Early Childhood Mark Swartz·Oct 23, 2020·3 min read“We as a nation are taking parenting seriously for the first time,” economic researcher Martha Gimbel recently told The Washington... Read More
The Connection between Maternal Health and Infant Health: Asking the Difficult QuestionsMark Swartz·Sep 19, 2019·4 min read“Our health system is failing women” are the unequivocal opening words of a report issued this past spring by Early... Read More
“Those children probably aren’t going to be eating”: Family Child Care Providers Prepare for Food Program CliffElliot Haspel·Jun 7, 2022·3 min readA little-noticed meteorite is about to smash into family child care providers. If Congress does not act by June 30th... Read More
The American Rescue Plan Provides a Blueprint for Keeping Kids Safe and Reducing Reliance on the Foster Care SystemKendra Hurley·Apr 13, 2021·5 min readThe $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan signed into law by President Joe Biden has been lauded as a “force for... Read More
Long a Stranger to the Spotlight, Child Tax Credit Earns Embrace of Both Parties Proposals to expand the benefit are coming from every corner as the election — as well as a harsh 2025 deadline — looms Kevin Mahnken·Sep 3, 2024·7 min readThis article was produced in partnership with The 74. The Child Tax Credit isn’t a subject you’d expect to receive... Read More
Children First: What a “Values-Based Budget” Looks LikeMark Swartz·Sep 13, 2019·3 min readWhat would happen if we prioritized children’s potential? That’s the question implicitly asked and explicitly answered in the recent paper... Read More
New Mexico Just Became the First State to Make Child Care Free for Nearly All FamiliesBryce Covert·May 26, 2022·8 min readNew Mexico, a state long used to landing at the bottom of national rankings for children’s well-being, just made a... Read More
Beyond the Brain Science: Early Childhood Luminary Jack Shonkoff Calls For “ECD 2.0”Elliot Haspel·Jan 27, 2022·3 min readWhen Jack Shonkoff speaks, the early childhood field listens. Shonkoff, a pediatrician who leads Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child,... Read More
For Want of a Diaper, Families Are Getting Lost: No Diapers. No Day Care. No Job.K.C. Compton·Apr 20, 2021·7 min readThis may be one of the saddest facts you read in a while: One in three moms in the U.S.... Read More
Unconditional Cash: A Bold New Pilot for Pregnant WomenMark Swartz·Jun 9, 2020·3 min readLived Experience Sabra Bell remembers what it was like to be pregnant and low on funds. “Extra cash would have... Read More
Boosting California’s Early Childhood Capacity Sacramento Council Member Eric Guerra Fights for Kids Mark Swartz·Feb 23, 2021·4 min readThe son of farmworkers, Eric Guerra remembers tagging along with his mother while she picked figs for a dollar per... Read More
The Long-Term Damage of Child Hunger—and What We Can Do to Prevent ItMark Swartz·Jan 14, 2021·3 min readIn 2020, the Hunt Institute’s Javaid Siddiqi and Dan Wuori co-authored an essay on meeting children’s basic needs, arguing, “Before... Read More