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