Long-term investments in a new birth-to-five early learning system will be critical to a strong economic recovery.
Congress must make the temporary expansion of the child tax credit permanent.
The United States needs a comprehensive solution to make child care affordable for families.
The lack of affordable and high-quality child care has disproportionately pushed women out of the workforce for decades. It is long past time for the United States to provide adequate, sustained funding and end the child care crisis.
Congress must pass a comprehensive COVID-19 relief package that includes at least $50 billion to save the child care industry for families and providers.
The horrors of family separation and the lasting harms of these policies on children shall remain in the minds of every American.
Congress must fund child care to help early educators ensure that future generations have the foundation they need to build a healthy, successful life.
Angela and her daughter Patrice discuss the effects of the lack of quality, affordable child care on their family as Patrice raises two young daughters.
Patty and her daughter Megan discuss the importance of affordable child care for Megan's daughter and how this issue affects their family.
In 2018, Congress passed the United States’ largest ever increase of the Child Care and Development Block Grant, giving states across the nation more than $2 billion additional each year to invest in child care.