Every time Emmy Thibodeaux drops off or picks up her two-year-old son at child care, there’s a situation being managed,...
Oregon is aiming to improve child care across the state—expanding access, boosting quality and building more sustainability into the system....
Home-based child care is the most prevalent form of child care in the United States and particularly for infants and...
The laws of supply and demand have never quite applied to child care, and no state exemplifies this conundrum as...
Our favorite snippets from the week at Early Learning Nation magazine: Time to Include Non-English Speakers in Pediatric Research. “Addressing...
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When workers leave an industry in droves because the pay is better at fast-food chains or because they can’t take...
If you’ve been following my work for the past year, you know I am deeply concerned about how unprepared our child- and family-serving systems are for this new reality. I’m not the only one. A new report puts a fine point on why early care & education stakeholders need to have a climate strategy, and why public officials need to have ECE in their climate strategy: a staggering number of child care programs are under threat.
How Child Care in Oregon is Saving the Construction Trade
Statewide apprenticeship program with generous child care subsidies also trains and recruits workers
There has been a construction boom in Oregon. Demand in the trade continues to rise yet 90 percent of construction...
Bilingualism means more than the ability to speak two languages. Robert Stechuk, UnidosUS’s director of early childhood education programs, maintains...
Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...
Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy made headlines and history when it took 15 rounds of votes for his...














