Child Care Proposals

This brief provides an overview and initial analysis of the Governor’s key child care budget proposals for 2023‑24, estimates of child care program costs, and the effects of allowing some temporary policies to expire.

Could a new San Francisco tax be a solution to the child care crisis?

There’s at least one place in California where even households making six figures can get help paying for child care: San Francisco, the state’s most expensive county when it comes to child care.

The pandemic fueled a public school exodus, study says

An estimated 152,000 California children went missing from public school classrooms amid the pandemic, according to new Stanford research, reflecting a period of profound disruption of family and school life.

The 2023-24 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten and State Preschool Proposals

This brief provides an overview and analysis of the Governor’s proposals for transitional kindergarten (TK) and State Preschool. Delaying Facilities Funding and Maintaining Current TK Staffing Ratios Seems Reasonable Given State Budget Problem.

House Democrats just launched a 'Dads Caucus' to push for parental leave, the child tax credit, and universal childcare

America has a childcare problem. A group of Democratic congressmen say they want to push for a better way forward.

Child care providers are a casualty of California's transitional kindergarten

In late 2021, Gov. Gavin Newsom trumpeted a multi-billion-dollar plan that he said would transform early childhood learning in California by bringing 4-year-olds into the public school system.

Child Care Hasn’t Recovered From Covid, Keeping Many Parents at Home

The high cost and limited availability of child care is keeping some parents out of the labor force when unemployment is at its lowest rate in more than half a century. There were about 58,000 fewer daycare workers in the U.S.

California’s child care aid misses hundreds of thousands of families who need it

Zaira Reynoso wanted to give her daughter, Ania, a sibling. But one fear was holding the 31-year-old and her husband Erik back from pursuing another pregnancy: They couldn’t afford child care for another kid.

This is what life is like for thousands of California parents who still can’t get child care

Nearly three years after the pandemic began, parents are still feeling a financial squeeze because of child care. In December, 51,000 parents had to miss work because of child-care problems.