Merrill Gay

Velonaut, early childhood advocate, dad

[Nancy Jost @jostnancy]

Congress Set to Approve Critical Funding Increases for Key Federal Early Childhood Education Programs https://t.co/UblfC6cJ8O

[Merrill Gay @NBtriker]

@jimfarley98 CEO @ford it's day 139 waiting for a transmission control module to fix my Ford Focus. The driveway has been empty for too long #FixMyCar

[Elliot Haspel @ehaspel]

I keep thinking about the side-by-side of these pieces, which came out within days of each other. I don’t know that the barrier now is knowledge of the problem — we need to have a serious conversation about care as a shared value, as opposed to a private market commodity.

[Merrill Gay @NBtriker]

As child care programs struggle with staffing issues there is another problem, empty wait lists. Hard to say what is cause and what is effect but this explores the issue https://t.co/lbkghkwAwI

[Merrill Gay @NBtriker]

Spoiler alert.... its child care https://t.co/jDMeZ21EHq

[Walter Gilliam @WalterGilliam]

NEW STUDY!

Our latest Yale-CARES paper, national sample of 81,682 early care & education professionals 2-3 months into pandemic — 46% with potentially diagnosable levels of depression, 67% moderate-high stress, 20% higher asthma rate. Brief thread.
1/10

https://t.co/yPoa6eDWR4

[Merrill Gay @NBtriker]

This is a huge step forward. Many child care workers go without health coverage because parents can't pay enough in tuition for programs to offer insurance.

[CTECA @CTECA]

Exciting news for DC child care workers. FREE HEALTH INSURANCE! https://t.co/N1QEq48tsH

[CTECA @CTECA]

Take action to urge Congress to reauthorize the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting program https://t.co/Ibayg5GXuK

[Merrill Gay @NBtriker]

Why does the annual company benefits meeting always leave me feeling like we couldn't have created a more convoluted, expensive system to provide health care if we tried.

[CLASP @CLASP_DC]

Federal investments to #SolveChildCare are critical to bringing down child care costs for working families & ensuring providers are paid a living wage.

[Miriam Calderon @miriamelena88]

Let’s be clear: The Senate’s failure to include #ChildCare in the reconciliation framework is a devastating blow to babies, families, and providers. #ThinkBabiesandAct #SolveChildCare

[Merrill Gay @NBtriker]

@GovNedLamont @MayorCarolineCT @MayorBronin @justinelicker This is what the competition is up to.

[City of Boston @CityOfBoston]

Announcing: The City of Boston will be expanding support for community based-classrooms with a $20 million investment in early education through Boston's Universal Pre-K program, a partnership between BPS and the Office of Early Childhood.

Learn more: https://t.co/KyZTrXSsqf

[Merrill Gay @NBtriker]

This is pretty brilliant.

[Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner]

Hugh Grant tweeted a request at activists protesting outside Westminster to play the Benny Hill theme on their loudspeakers; when they did it became the soundtrack for street interviews with leading Tories trying explain the situation to the British people

[Merrill Gay @NBtriker]

NPR's Marketplace story on the broken market we call child care https://t.co/LB4DaZK7em

[Merrill Gay @NBtriker]

https://t.co/eTEYzbfKYW

[Merrill Gay @NBtriker]

I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Act Now: Invest in Child Care. Write one here: https://t.co/kXjolhRvMO

[Merrill Gay @NBtriker]

Last night the CT General Assembly increased early childhood funding by $183 million! ADVOCACY WORKS, but it costs money. Please support the Early Childhood Alliance. https://t.co/30nk04gghX via @GiveGab

[CLASP @CLASP_DC]

In partnership with @OxfamAmerica @NABTU @SEIU @nwlc, we are calling on Congress to fund affordable, accessible child care and help ensure living wages for providers and all workers.

https://t.co/ORygB39Ev6

[Merrill Gay @NBtriker]

@GovNedLamont #fixChildcare

[Elliot Haspel @ehaspel]

When you actually invest in child care like Canada has now done, you get these kind of headlines instead of the infinite scroll of articles about U.S. closures and staffing crises:

[Merrill Gay @NBtriker]

@GovNedLamont everywhere I go there are help wanted signs. Parents can't work without child care. #FixChildCare #childcareforct