#ICYMI: State leaders are citing our data to support families! In a letter to Mayor Adams on affordability and the FY25 city budget, over twenty state leaders from the New York State Senate and New York State Assembly, led by Congresswoman Velázquez, expressed concern over affordability for New York City residents amid reported intractability of budget negotiations between the Mayor and City Council. The letter focuses generally on funding for housing, libraries, universities, and child care and references data straight from CCC's own data publications on child care affordability. The letter explains, "80% of New Yorkers cannot afford the cost of childcare, with families allocating as much as 43% of their income to center-based care alone, sometimes more." Read the CCC report this data is from: https://bit.ly/birthto12 CCC agrees that the budget must focus on affordability. We have the tools and data needed to make investments that make a difference, especially when it comes to child care. Currently, families with kids under six are leaving NYC at twice the rate of others as the cost of care is driving many households to their financial breaking point. Child care access is critical to the health of our local economy and families. Take action in support of protecting child care access: https://bit.ly/ecys24 Read the letter: https://lnkd.in/eUqHwnHR
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“Nurturing the next generation is a societal good...involving a combination of parental care, care provided by family, friends and neighbors, and formal child care and education settings that range from in-home to center-based to faith-based care.” - Blueprint for Action (a by-partisan plan calling for a new holistic care plan for young children). https://lnkd.in/eGZB_bbt
Investing in Child Care Offers a Rare Glimpse of Cross-Partisan Agreement
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While child care challenges most directly affect parents and their young children, the impact of these struggles is felt far beyond individual families. The well-being of Virginia’s businesses and economy as a whole are also significantly threatened by the child care crisis. In a recent statewide survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, the Virginia Chamber of Commerce and the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation, 76% of employers reported that child care availability impacted recruitment and retention in their company, and 78% reported that employees frequently or occasionally miss work because of child care issues. Without a strong child care system, Virginia businesses are suffering from substantial gaps in productivity and profitability. Read on here:
Commentary: For a stronger economy, and a better Virginia, invest in early education
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My new commentary for The Century Foundation features polling we did with Morning Consult that finds, "among parents with children 5 and under, nearly 1 in 3 would increase their work hours, and 1 in 4 would seek a new job if reliable, affordable child care were available." Simply put, the status quo isn't working for families. It isn't giving parents the freedom to chose how they want to work and how they want to care for their families. Read to learn more about how the current child care landscapes impacts families' labor market decisions. https://lnkd.in/eveBc9si
Supporting Mothers Requires a Child Care Guarantee
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Why is child care so expensive?? As our Policy Director explains: It's the result of political choices. “A lot of our child care challenges, the shortage of care, the lack of affordability of care, all these things are rooted in a decision that we've made as a country to not treat child care like a public good. We don't treat it the same way that we treat the education system. This has been a real challenge for many decades, but it keeps on getting more severe of a problem for families and we seem to be sort of reaching some kind of breaking point.” Here's a great explanation of how it all works from Gothamist. Whether we're talking NYC, Western NY or the North Country, the facts remain the same: Parents can't afford to pay more and providers can't afford to charge less. https://lnkd.in/etrXJfin
Why child care is so expensive in NYC that it's become a crisis
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#ICYMI fifteen of the city's major labor organizations are calling on Mayor Adams to reverse the budget cuts to the city's Pre-K and 3-K program and to protect universal access to child care in the city’s budget. In a letter sent to City Hall on June 11, these unions echo CCC's own call to action for child care access and funding and cite CCC's data on the unaffordability of child care to underscore just how important these investments are for the well-being of the city and families. Together these unions represented thousands of New Yorkers. Read the letter here: https://lnkd.in/e4Vct3kA If you agree with this letter and our priorities to protect Pre-K and 3-K investments, please take a stand with us and these unions and take action now: https://bit.ly/ecys24 #Advocacy #ChildAdvocacy #ChildCare #NYC
Tell city leaders to reverse cuts to early childhood and youth services | CCC New York
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We're so used to dealing with what appears to be a logistic issue: the threadbare, ad hoc "system" of childcare in this country. We don't often take into account the level of stress and its impact on our mental health. In today's NY Times, @mollydickens and I connect the dots. Childcare is a social determinant of health. Stress matters in parenthood. Parental mental health matters. We need to stop devaluing parenting and caring for children and seal up the cracks in our social infrastructure. Our mental health depends on it. https://lnkd.in/eKrrEi5x
It is time to accept that child care is healthcare. My co-author, Lucy Hutner, MD, and I make the case for this in our op-ed out today in The New York Times. Affordable, accessible, high-quality, stable child care. Aligning these needs has been hard to come by for decades, and many American families end up sacrificing one or all in order to have some degree of care coverage. And it is only getting harder. With every added difficulty, every additional sacrifice, every moment of child care precarity, the stress load on parents grows. That stress adds up. That stress affects our physical and mental health. Right now, there are two potential paths in America: Path one – a growing child care crisis adding fuel to the growing mental health crisis. Path two – solving the child care crisis AND alleviating the growing mental health crisis. Federal funding for child care is a critical solution and an incredible opportunity to apply one tranche of funding to two crises. (not to mention the benefits of child care for the economy and gender equity) It’s a no brainer, right? Let’s go fight for it! https://lnkd.in/gBUifayv (Big thanks to Karen Sheffield-Abdullah PhD, MSN, CNM, FACNM, Chelsea Conaboy, Cornelia Channing, Elliot Haspel, and Julie Kashen) #ChildcareIsHealthcare #maternalstress #mentalhealth #CareCantWait
Opinion | What the Child Care Crisis Does to Parents
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It's a continuing dilemma: While many families struggle with the cost of child care, providers often grapple with having enough funds to meet expenses and pay staff adequately. A Wilder Research, Minnesota Dept. of Education, and Minnesota Dept. of Human Services survey of early childhood educators found that despite being employed, 16% of the workforce is living below 200% of the federal poverty level (21% of those living in greater Minnesota) and 15% rely on public benefits, primarily Medical Assistance. New investments are being made to develop ways to pay early childhood educators a living wage. Read the survey report for more: https://bit.ly/49X9m7c https://bit.ly/430TwWN #MNchildcare
Child care closures renew worries around the economics of early learning
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A major part of the recently-released 2023 Iowa Child Care Workforce Study focused on the state of compensation for early care and education providers in Iowa. The study found that compensation was the primary concern for sustaining our child care workforce; low wages and lack of benefits are inhibiting workforce supply and stability, which directly reduces the capacity for programs to enroll children. Findings from this statewide workforce study suggest a multi-pronged approach is needed to solve this problem. Learn more about state of compensation and six actionable, sustainable ways to address the issue of compensation on our website. https://lnkd.in/gxrw6U-u
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Child care availability is on the decline in Cambria County and has been since the pandemic. Join us for a session examining the causes and impact. We’ll also discuss potential solutions. This panel features a review of data and an expert panel including Andrea Heberlein, Executive Director of the PA Early Learning Investment Commission, Linda Thomson, President and CEO of Johnstown Area Regional Industries, and Karen Grimm-Thomas, Early Childhood Education Strategy Advisor to the Pennsylvania Key. Child care is a workforce support that is essential for families with young children. Without it, people cannot go to work and employers are left with job openings they can’t fill. A lack of child care is creating challenges in Cambria County. Since 2019, the county experienced a net loss of 17 child care providers. With 25% fewer child care providers and 385 less child care seats, parents are faced with tough decisions. Stay out of the workforce? Leave their child in an informal, less reliable, and potentially unsafe child care arrangement? Work shifts? There are no good answers. WHEN: August 8 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Pennsylvania Highlands Community College Workforce Center LGI at 101 Community College Way in Richland Township. Email hbuchmann@thelearninglamp.org or call 814-262-0732 x 242 to register! Seating is limited.
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