Just one day after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential election and endorsed his vice president, Kamala...
The child care movement needs a broad base of support in order to win an effective, publicly-funded system. Now, a new research paper is opening another door by showing how child care is impacting that most respected of American icons: farmers.
Did you know that infants require up to 12 diapers per day? Did you also know this can cost families...
A recent column by the popular center-left writer Matt Yglesias reinforced for me yet again why we need a different foundation for our care arguments.
I wrote last year about the strange schism between early child care and school-aged child care, and I don’t want to belabor the point other than to say parents of school-aged children represent a shockingly untapped care constituency. Instead, I want to talk about summer care, and summer camp specifically.
“I’m a reader!” These are magic words for Alvin Irby, a former teacher and the founder and executive director of...
Terri Simms has run her child care business, known as Playtime Nursery School, in Dayton, Ohio for over 27 years....
In our talk of care, we frequently focus on questions of where, who and what. We rarely ask questions of why we care and what it means to care. Similarly, much of the modern care conversation centers around (very real!) struggles and scarcity. That’s why I was so pleased to read journalist Elissa Strauss’ new book, When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others.
Cast in America as a pay-to-play system with limited public funding, child care has long struggled with issues like difficult budgetary math, low educator pay, and highly variable quality. An unprecedented degree of investor activity is creating a cascade of risks for the sector, risks which threaten the path toward an inclusive child care system which works well for all children, parents, and early educators.
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...
There is a concept, variously used in science and business, known as the “valley of death.” In essence, this is the dangerous period between research & development and on-the-ground adoption where many ideas and ventures fail.
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...
