After decades of disinvestment in child care that went largely unnoticed, the pandemic knocked the fragile system even more off...
Deborah VanderGaast originally started running a child care business out of her home in Tipton, Iowa in 2005 serving children...
Isis Mabel made just $4.50 an hour caring for three children when she arrived in Massachusetts from Mexico as an...
After signing a $1.9 trillion relief bill into law, President Joe Biden is taking on his next big policy priority:...
Decades before the Covid pandemic, Ai-jen Poo realized that domestic workers who care for children and the elderly had few...
Some States Have Avoided the Child Care Cliff
By Keeping Investment Going, About a Dozen States Have Kept Providers Open and Tuition Increases Down.
The federal American Rescue Plan Act, signed into law in early 2022, sent the child care sector the single largest...
If caregiving is labor, if caregiving supports child development, if caregiving boosts the economy, if caregiving enables family flourishing, then how can we say only institutional programs belong within child care policy?
5 Top Takeaways from New America’s Better Life Lab Conversation with Child Care Advocates and Policy Leaders
New Report Raises Critical Questions
What do Marriott, Home Depot, Patagonia and Walmart have in common? These businesses offer benefits like onsite child care and...
Free school meals were a godsend for Lynnea Hawkins long before the pandemic. Her son was living with his father...
Last year, I wrote a column on five trends to look for in 2023 (which I think in retrospect were mostly apt, though the answer to ‘is bipartisanship possible’ seems to have been ‘outlook not so good’), and thought it would be worthwhile to do it again as the calendar gets ready to turn.
“I’m a reader!” These are magic words for Alvin Irby, a former teacher and the founder and executive director of...
America Doesn’t Know How to Talk About Child Care
Child care is finally getting widespread attention, but we have yet to answer the essential questions: what is child care and who is it for?
I’ll be honest, I didn’t expect child care to be a major flashpoint in the 2024 election cycle. There are...
