This brief walks through some of the history and current landscape of the child care workforce, including which states have collective bargaining policies in place for home-based child care providers, who fall outside the traditional employer-employee bargaining model and lack a mechanism for collectively organizing…
This brief outlines the history of inequitable disciplinary practices in child care and early education—and in the context of American society more generally.
Like other workers with low incomes, child care workers often lack access to affordable coverage options. States have policy options available to ensure affordable health coverage for low-income workers, including child care professionals.
Child care is an essential service that parents rely on so they can work, attend school, or participate in training while knowing their children are well cared for […]
Two years into the pandemic and one year after the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), this brief examines how decision makers implementing ARPA have used COVID relief funding and policy opportunities to lay the groundwork for longer-term, transformative change by equitably supporting…
One of the Build Back Better (BBB) Act’s most significant effects would be in reshaping the child care and early education field through long-overdue changes that will begin to address racial inequities—both for families and providers—through alleviating many of the socioeconomic barriers that uphold those…