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Colorado Pilot Gives Home Child Care Providers Cash Payments with No Strings Attached

More Providers Stay Open and Manage Income Fluctuations

Bryce Covert·Jun 14, 2023·8 min read

Angelica Lerrga started caring for children in the basement of her sister’s Colorado home in 2009, after her husband had...

With $125 Million Hanging in the Air, Vermont Sets the Stage for National Child Care

Even After the Governor’s Veto, Sufficient Votes Exist for an Override

Rebecca Gale·Jun 13, 2023·4 min read

The Vermont legislature is close to enacting their goal of bringing near-universal child care to their state with $125 million...

The Early Learning Teacher Corps: A Public Service Innovation in Louisiana

Mark Swartz·Jun 8, 2023·4 min read

In 1999, addressing AmeriCorps members on the program’s fifth anniversary, President Bill Clinton said, “There is no question that you...

Decline of Home-Based Child Care Options Sours Parents’ Perception of the Child Care Market

Natalie Renew·Jun 7, 2023·6 min read

Home-based child care is the most prevalent form of child care in the United States and particularly for infants and...

Elliot’s Provocations: Bring on School-Aged Care

Can We Create a Seamless Melding of Early Child Care and School-Aged Care?

Elliot Haspel·Jun 5, 2023·5 min read

Linking early child care and school-aged care is a good idea both on the merits and the politics. I’m hardly the first one to point this out, but I want to highlight the opportunity here as we head into summer break and the acute headache it causes for many families.

Tennessee on Track to Become First in Nation to Offer Diaper Benefit to Medicaid Families

Good, Say Medicaid Expansion Advocates, But More Work Is Needed

K.C. Compton·Jun 1, 2023·4 min read

Some of Tennessee’s most vulnerable families could soon get relief from the high cost of diapers, as the state works...

Book Review: Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth

K.C. Compton·May 30, 2023·5 min read

In flipping the script, Banks writes that birth is immense, that birth has existential, moral and theological significance at least as great as death.