Expertise: Early childhood
Katie Hamm is the vice president of Early Childhood Policy at American Progress. Prior to joining American Progress, Hamm worked as a program examiner at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget on federal child care and early education programs, including the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge, the Child Care and Development Fund, and the Head Start program. Her work focused on developing budget proposals to strengthen the quality and access to early childhood programs. She also worked on international issues in early childhood while on detail to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Earlier in her career, Hamm worked at the Center for Law and Social Policy and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research on child care and early education issues.
She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree in public administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
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| Eliminating Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Mortality | Center for American Progress | May 2, 2019 |
| Families and Educators Benefit from Congress’ Increase in Child Care Funding | Center for American Progress | January 15, 2019 |
| The government shutdown closed my child care | MomsRising.org | January 11, 2019 |
| America’s Child Care Deserts in 2018 | Center for American Progress | December 6, 2018 |
| Newly Elected Governors Support Expanding Early Childhood Programs | Center for American Progress | November 7, 2018 |
| Understanding Infant and Toddler Child Care Deserts | Center for American Progress | October 31, 2018 |
| The Trump Plan to Cut Benefit Programs Threatens Children | Center for American Progress | April 10, 2018 |
| Top 10 Early Childhood Ideas for States in 2018 | Center for American Progress | March 14, 2018 |
| The Child Care for Working Families Act Will Boost Employment and Create Jobs | Center for American Progress | December 7, 2017 |
| The House GOP Tax Bill Does Not Address Child Care Affordability | Center for American Progress | November 8, 2017 |
| The Cost of Inaction on Universal Preschool | Center for American Progress | October 31, 2017 |
| Trump’s Plan for the Child Tax Credit Does Not Meet Working Families’ Needs | Center for American Progress | October 25, 2017 |
| Trump Pushes Massive Tax Cut for Multimillionaires over Child Care for Working Families | Center for American Progress | October 19, 2017 |
| Ivanka Trump’s Report Card on Women’s and Working Families’ Issues | Center for American Progress | October 3, 2017 |
| A Blueprint for Child Care Reform | Center for American Progress | September 7, 2017 |
| Mapping America’s Child Care Deserts | Center for American Progress | August 30, 2017 |
| 7 Policies that Women Who Work Need Right Now | Medium | May 3, 2017 |
| 5 Questions the Trump Administration Needs to Answer on Child Care | Center for American Progress | April 26, 2017 |
| Trump’s Child Care Plan Doesn’t Help the Families that Won Him the Election | Center for American Progress | April 25, 2017 |
| 6 Policies to Support the Early Childhood Workforce | Center for American Progress | February 6, 2017 |
| Mapping Our Child Care Deserts | Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity | February 1, 2017 |
| Child Care Deserts | Center for American Progress | October 27, 2016 |
| Interactive: Where Are the Child Care Deserts? | childcaredeserts.org | October 27, 2016 |
| Underpaid and Unequal | Center for American Progress | August 26, 2016 |
| State Examples of the Hidden Cost of a Failing Child Care System | Center for American Progress | June 21, 2016 |
| Calculating the Hidden Cost of Interrupting a Career for Child Care | Center for American Progress | June 21, 2016 |
| Paying It Forward | Center for American Progress | November 12, 2015 |
| How a High-Quality Child Care Tax Credit Would Benefit Millennial Families | Center for American Progress | September 29, 2015 |
| A New Vision for Child Care in the United States | Center for American Progress | September 2, 2015 |
| Child Care Got Left Behind | U.S. News & World Report | July 21, 2015 |
| How the Child and Adult Care Food Program Improves Early Childhood Education | Center for American Progress | June 11, 2015 |
| Emerging State and Community Strategies to Improve Infant and Toddler Services | Center for American Progress | June 4, 2015 |
| Aligning and Investing in Infant and Toddler Programs | Center for American Progress | October 15, 2014 |
| The Importance of Early Childhood Programs for Women on the Brink | Center for American Progress | April 2, 2014 |
| Is a New Federal Early Learning Initiative Duplicative? | Center for American Progress | March 27, 2014 |
| What the House Budget Committee Report Got Right and Wrong About Early Childhood Education | Center for American Progress | March 5, 2014 |
| Cuts to the Child Care Subsidy System Force Parents and Providers to Make Difficult Choices | Center for American Progress | January 6, 2014 |
| The School-Readiness Gap and Preschool Benefits for Children of Color | Center for American Progress | November 12, 2013 |
| Who’s Not Going Back to School? | Center for American Progress | August 28, 2013 |
| The Top 10 Myths About Preschool | Center for American Progress | June 25, 2013 |
