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Care for All: Key Lessons for Child Advocates from the Broader $648 Billion Care Economy

Mark Swartz

The Children鈥檚 Agenda: What a Harris-Walz Administration Could Mean For Families

Bryce Covert

Diapers are Missing from the Safety Net. American Families are Paying the Price.

Elise Anderson

New Report: How Supercharging the Child Tax Credit Benefited Young Children, and What Comes Next

Mark Swartz

Why is Child Care So Expensive? What We Can Do About It.

Rebecca Gale & Dianne Kirsch

‘The End User Is a Dollar Sign, It鈥檚 Not a Child’

Elliot Haspel

Virginia (Finally) Embraces Kinship Care

Mark Swartz

From Blueprint to Blue Ribbon: How Franklin County, OH Is Using Rescue Plan Dollars to Stabilize 鈥� and Revitalize 鈥� Child Care

Mark Swartz

Study: Health Insurance Differences Can Cost a Baby鈥檚 Life

K.C. Compton

Ahead of the Game: How the American Rescue Plan Act Rescued One Maryland Family Care Program, and What Comes Next

Mark Swartz

Pregnancy and Shackles: Birth Behind Bars Marked by a Patchwork of Policies and Neglect

K.C. Compton

WIC Faces Cuts if Congress Reneges on 25-Year-Long Bipartisan Commitment

Bryce Covert

The Economic Argument for Child Care Is Urgent. But Is a Child Care System Built for Maximizing Economic Returns Best for the People Involved?

Haley Swenson

Improving Child Care in Puerto Rico Begins with Building a Data Infrastructure

Rebecca Gale

America鈥檚 Child Care Food Programs: Available and Too-Often Unused

K.C. Compton

The Lahaina Fires Illuminate Our Immense Unpreparedness of Weather-Related Disasters

Haley Swenson

Will NYC Mayor Invest in Universal Pre-K or Let It Starve?

Elise Anderson

Minnesota Makes Major Strides on Behalf of Children and Families

Rebecca Gale

Vermont Makes Child Care History with a Bipartisan Veto Override

Rebecca Gale

Colorado Pilot Gives Home Child Care Providers Cash Payments with No Strings Attached

Bryce Covert

With $125M Hanging in the Air, Vermont Sets the Stage for National Child Care

Rebecca Gale

Tennessee on Track to Become First in Nation to Offer Diaper Benefit to Medicaid Families

K.C. Compton

More than 700 Child Care Providers Shut Their Doors to Demand Better Pay

Bryce Covert

Doula Services: Michigan Offers Medicaid Enrollees a Powerful Boost for Better Childbirth Outcomes

K.C. Compton

Will Biden’s First Term Have a Lasting Impact on the Child Care Sector?

Bryce Covert

The Power of First 10 Partnerships: 3 Examples

Mark Swartz

The Power of First 10 Partnerships

Mark Swartz

Harvard鈥檚 Nonie Lesaux on the Long and Winding Road to High-Quality, Universal Child Care

Mark Swartz

Bank Street鈥檚 New Policy Fellowship Aims for Equity and Quality

Mark Swartz

Study Finds Preschool Programs Reserved for Children from Low-Income Families Not as Effective as Universal Programs that Include Higher-Income Families

Kendra Hurley

FUEL for Asylum Seekers and Their Children

Mark Swartz

Can the Congressional Dads Caucus Help Break the Logjam on Family-Friendly Policies?

Bryce Covert

How Child Care in Oregon is Saving the Construction Trade

Rebecca Gale

ELSI: Oregon鈥檚 Higher Education Partner for Early Education

Mark Swartz

A Landmark Victory for Pregnant and Nursing Workers – 10 Years in the Making

Rebecca Gale

How Grassroots Activists Got Early Childhood Education Aid on the Ballot in New Mexico

Leigh Giangreco

New Mexico is the First State to Guarantee a Right to Early Childhood Education. Universal Child Care Could Come Next

Bryce Covert

Shame, Stigma and Hunger Return as Congress Eliminates Free Meals for All in Public Schools

Bryce Covert

Voices and Visions for Transformative Change from Child Care NEXT

Mark Swartz

How Two Zaentz Fellows Are Adapting to 鈥� and Shaping 鈥� the Early Education Landscape

Mark Swartz

‘Those Children Probably Aren鈥檛 Going to be Eating’: Family Child Care Providers Prepare for Food Program Cliff

Elliot Haspel

The Quality Trap: The Movement to Reconsider QRIS

Mark Swartz

New Mexico Just Became the First State to Make Child Care Free for Nearly All Families

Bryce Covert

The Child Tax Credit Expansion Was a Huge Success. Then It Ended.

Bryce Covert

The Lesser-known Effort to Help Fix Child Care and Pay Teachers More

Kendra Hurley

Beyond the Brain Science: Early Childhood Luminary Jack Shonkoff Calls For 鈥淓CD 2.0鈥�

Elliot Haspel

A Way Forward for Preschool for All in Washington State 鈥� and Beyond

Mark Swartz

A New Start for New Mexico鈥檚 Native Families

Mark Swartz

Philadelphia鈥檚 Soda Tax Shows Promise As Allocations for Pre-K Outperform Expectations

Mark Swartz

Michigan’s First of Its Kind Program Shares Child Care Costs Between the State, Employers and Employees

Bryce Covert

National Women鈥檚 Law Center鈥檚 #WeAretheBackbone Campaign Gives Voice to Child Care Workers

Mark Swartz

Universal Child Care May be Coming to Vermont

Rebecca Gale

Montreal: The North American City Where Family-Friendliness is ‘Like a Religion’

Kendra Hurley

How Three YMCAs Are Helping Their Communities Build Stronger Systems For All

Mark Swartz

We Have School Districts 鈥� Why Not Early Childhood Districts?

Elliot Haspel

New upEND Publication Calls for Fundamental Transformation of Family Policing

Mark Swartz

State Roundup: The Summer of Child Care Innovations

Elliot Haspel

Connecticut Becomes First State in Nation for Baby Bonds

Bryce Covert

How a ‘Pathbreaking Model’ from New Jersey Could Support Early Education Equity

Mark Swartz

The Path to Quality Child Care Just Became a Little Less Elusive

Kendra Hurley

Minnesota鈥檚 Early Education Scholarships: Access, Choice and Quality

Mark Swartz

Strolling Thunder Advocacy: Showing People the 鈥榃hy鈥�

Mark Swartz

Making It Work in Iowa: Professionalizing the Child Care Workforce Means Paying Providers Like Professionals

Mark Swartz

Helping U.S. Cities Shift to a Dignity Economy

Mark Swartz

The Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act: The Boldest Plan On Offer Is Quietly Received

Elliot Haspel

Book Review 鈥� Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty

K.C. Compton

For Want of a Diaper, Families Are Getting Lost: No Diapers. No Day Care. No Job.

K.C. Compton

The American Rescue Plan Provides a Blueprint for Keeping Kids Safe and Reducing Reliance on the Foster Care System

Kendra Hurley

Child Care is Infrastructure. Biden鈥檚 Relief Bill Understands That

Bryce Covert

The History of the American Rescue Plan鈥檚 Child Provisions and What it Means for Cutting Child Poverty

Mark Swartz

Playful Learning in Pittsburgh: The Park as a Classroom

Mark Swartz

American Rescue Plan: The United States Finally Invests Serious Resources in Our Children

Bryce Covert

New Public Education Project Brings Together a Robust, Bipartisan Coalition to Capture the Child Care Moment

Mark Swartz

Home Grown Launches ‘Leading from Home’ Initiative to Support Provider Leaders Nationwide

Natalie Renew

Book Review 鈥� What the Eyes Don鈥檛 See: Fueled by Idealism, Backed by Science

K.C. Compton

Boosting California鈥檚 Early Childhood Capacity

Mark Swartz

Here Come The Tired Arguments Against Universal Child Care 鈥� Reject Them

Elliot Haspel

The Era of Child Care Incrementalism is Over

Elliot Haspel

New Mexico On Verge of Securing State Constitutional Change to Ensure Stable Funding for Children Zero to Five

Bryce Covert

Pacesetter Communities Race for Children鈥檚 Literacy in Florida, North Carolina and Iowa

Mark Swartz

The Long-Term Damage of Child Hunger 鈥� and What We Can Do to Prevent It

Mark Swartz

Chicago Hope: New Documentary Celebrates the Educare Model

Mark Swartz

Las Vegas Takes Its Show on the Road to Provide Quality Pre-K to Child Care Deserts

K.C. Compton

Bank Street Makes the Case for Compensation

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from a Webinar on Local Matters: What Political Newcomers Need to Know

Mark Swartz

Alabama First Class Pre-K: Setting the Standard Nationally for 14 Years 鈥� and Counting

K.C. Compton

Proposition R in St. Louis: Ballot Measure Creates First Public Funding Source for Education and Care for Children 0-5

Bryce Covert

‘Like a Dream Become Reality’: Multnomah鈥檚 Preschool For All Effort Showcases Parent Power

Elliot Haspel

5 Questions for the Governor: Alabama’s Kay Ivey

Early Learning Nation Editors

Mighty, Mighty Bosses

Mark Swartz

Top Takeaways from the Home Grown Conversation: Measuring Emergency Funds鈥� Impact in COVID-19

Natalie Renew

A Universal Preschool Campaign in Oregon Galvanizes Broad Support and Rewrites All the Rules

Elliot Haspel

Top Takeaways from the Early Childhood Coalitions Panel at ZERO TO THREE Conference

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from the Webinar ‘A Path for Every State’

Mark Swartz

‘Invest in Families Instead’: A Renewed Call to Divest the Child Welfare System

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways: Early Childhood Philanthropic Leaders Discuss Deploying Risk Capital

Mark Swartz

Top Takeaways From the NHSA Policy Webinar Series: Building Resilient Head Start Systems through State Partnerships

Mark Swartz

A New Documentary Makes the Case for Investment in Early Childhood Education

Mark Swartz

Making the Bipartisan Case for Child Care: the Industry that Keeps America Working

Mark Swartz

This Book Is Cool! Program Fights the Summer Slide and the COVID-19 Slump

K.C. Compton
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