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The Need for Ongoing Support for the Nation's Child Care Sector


The Need for Ongoing Support for the Nation's Child Care Sector

States used COVID relief funding to make child care more affordable for 700,000 children, to increase wages and supports for 650,000 child care ...

The Need for Ongoing Support for the Nation's Child Care Sector

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions issued a Majority Staff Report on impacts of federal funding in the child care sector and the ...

Understanding America's Labor Shortage: The Impact of Scarce and ...

There is a shortage of accessible and affordable childcare in the US, leaving many working parents without the support system they need to thrive in the ...

Demanding Change: Repairing our Child Care System

The financial strain of the ongoing COVID‑19 pandemic on providers continues to result in more program closures. Years of undervalued work by child care ...

4 Reasons the U.S. Economy Needs Comprehensive Child Care

The child care sector has buckled under the pressure of the pandemic—with the economic downtown exacerbating decades of underinvestment, many ...

Child Care: Critical to the Economy but Difficult to Access and Afford

Additionally, many parents simply cannot find child care that meets their needs, limiting their ability to work. When the child care sector does ...

Strengthening a Robust Economic Recovery with Child Care

The Relationship between Child Care and a Strong Workforce · Two-in-five full-time working parents have children under age six. · Women who are ...

U.S. Child Care Crisis Is Holding Back The Workforce - Forbes

Combined public and private sector investments are essential to ensure every family has access to affordable, high-quality child care that ...

HOW FEDER - Small Business Majority

3 “Supporting Working Families: The Need for Ongoing Support for the Nation's Child Care Sector,” U.S. Senate Committee on Health,. Education ...

Rising Strains in Childcare and Early Education | Econofact

The high costs and limited availability of childcare and pre-K education present a substantial challenge for parents of young children in the ...

Prime for Overhaul: Policy Tools for Solving the Child Care Crisis

The U.S. child care industry has faced major challenges in recent years, including high staff turnover and a shortage of providers — ...

States Are Taking Action To Address the Child Care Crisis

Families need access to high-quality child care so that parents can work, go to school, or train for a job and so that young children can have ...

America, It's Time to Talk About Child Care

Children benefit from participating in programs that support their development and learning, beginning at birth and continuing through elementary school in the ...

If Increasing Need and Billions Of Dollars Haven't Fixed It, Is ...

As the cost of care continues to skyrocket, the early educators who staff childcare centers across the country have yet to see their wages catch ...

Is the child care crisis escalating? - EdSource

To be sure, the child care sector has long been marked by a brutal economic tug-of-war. Most families can't afford the skyrocketing high cost of ...

America's child care problem is about to get a lot worse. Here's why

Nationwide, more than 70000 child care programs are projected to close, and about 3.2 million children could lose their spots due to the end ...

Top-Down, Bottom-Up: Building a State Child Care Center Workforce

T he pandemic exposed the cracks and fissures in our nation's child care industry and highlighted the unfortunate reality that child care, ...

Child care is essential for working parents, but is the industry ready ...

In the coming months, many families will be continuously reassessing their child care needs and what levels of risk are acceptable. The child ...

Child Care is Essential and Needs Emergency Support to Survive

Child care is the backbone of our nation's response to disaster and the road to recovery. Yet programs and providers are in crisis.

With Arrival of Child Care Cliff, Some States Have Stepped in to ...

Across the nation, states that have not invested to continue stabilizing the child care sector are facing rising tuition and fees for families, ...