.@MayorBowser's proposed FY25 budget decimates the #childcare sector with massive, multi-year cuts to subsidies for families, and permanently eliminates the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund and HealthCare4ChildCare. Read our statement: https://t.co/Xl7Gk78o9j #Under3DC
Racism and sexism have led to the underinvestment and undervaluation of child care.
Our new brief with @nwlc lays out an anti-racist vision for child care that expands access, advances racial equity, and improves child well-being. https://t.co/pefLjcPZ78
In just a few weeks a child care crisis will disrupt families & our economies. We need action now.
That's why we led nearly 1,000 organizations from all 50 states to sound the alarm & call for emergency child care funding.
Read our letter: https://t.co/Q3fPaTkNrD #SaveChildCare
W/ the end of COVID child care funding near, we thought hard about how we wanted to tell this story.
We settled on showing the fallout of a closure on 1 center, 1 community, 1 group of parents.
The projections are 70,000 closures in the next few months.
https://t.co/fXkh3HptII
New research from @nwlc shows #childcare workers pay growth trailed other low-paid sectors over last 3 years (& that's WITH the relief dollars).
If Congress allows relief dollars to expire on 9/30/23, expect child care supply crisis to get even worse.
https://t.co/viJsBPCvLc
EXCLUSIVE: C. Nicole Mason is out as president at the Institute for Women's Policy Research following my months-long investigation into the org for @TheProspect, which uncovered two years of >70% turnover & allegations of toxic leadership.
https://t.co/0PEj8JvNyS
Breaking news: the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, a bill that requires reasonable workplace accommodations to allow pregnant workers to safely stay on the job, is finally about to become law https://t.co/9Y5B66XrUL
This is about the power of the bosses to make their workers submit. They are setting a model for the bosses at the Uni of California, Northwestern, Rutgers, MIT, & elsewhere where students and adjuncts are unionizing or bargaining. Stand with them because they are all of us.
✨NEW by @alexbellecon, Matthew Forbes, @TillvonWachter on the early cut-off of pandemic UI✨
✔️ GIANT decrease in recipiency, 3x the Great Recession cliff decrease
✖️ NO appreciable increase in employment
Makes you wonder why we chose this policy🤔.
https://t.co/AwNET4R6nC
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act must pass this year - the health and livelihood of millions of women are on the line! @SenSchumer and Congressional leaders must not go home until we #PassPWFA!
#ProtectPregnantWorkers and contact Congress now: https://t.co/PpJF5JcctS
Across every state, ARPA discretionary funding has made child care more available, accessible, and affordable, while also supporting workers.
But right now, it’s unclear if there is more support on the way.
https://t.co/d7O0hQn0ze
This morning, the American Prospect published an investigation that others wouldn’t.
https://t.co/CftUJsO4ys
I’ll be supporting their nonprofit newsroom this Giving Tuesday.
This story contributes to a growing reckoning among many nonprofit orgs in how their values don't align with their practices which ultimately harms the cause they purport to support.
NEW: The Institute for Women's Policy Research shaped equal pay/paid leave laws for decades. Now 27 former staffers allege it’s in crisis under CEO C. Nicole Mason
My months-long investigation—which prompted an ongoing probe into the org—for @TheProspect:
https://t.co/CftUJt6dMA
What will last from the past few years of real gains for average workers?
In @BusinessInsider, I explore the rise in worker power, and assess what can be done to lock in wins as the labor market slackens.
https://t.co/vZf29lGK2z
Important questions here from @ehaspel about for-profit childcare companies. At a time when most providers are in crisis, they're growing and gobbling up the industry. The ones owned by private equity are particularly alarming. https://t.co/oWRK2y5p3r