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When Tanya Gillespie-Lambert goes to an event in a local park in Camden, New Jersey, she takes a handful of brochures about free preschool with her.

Child Care Aware of America (CCAoA) recently published Child Care at a Standstill: Price and Landscape Analysis, an annual report assessing the national, state, and regional trends in child care. The newest edition analyzes the supply, affordability, and price of child care in 2023.

The administration of President Joe Biden is taking steps to forgive student loans of preschool teachers and other early childhood educators who were left out of a program that has canceled debts for teachers and other public servants.

Child care concerns have reached a boiling point for parents and providers, and it’s become increasingly difficult for families to afford essentials like health care and housing.

Parents, it’s not just you: It really does cost a lot to raise a child in the United States. The annual Child Cost Aware of America (CCAoA) report is out and the results are staggering. The national average price of childcare for 2023 was $11,582 – and that’s just the AVERAGE!

For years, conservatives have dropped the ball on early childhood education policy, almost entirely ceding the playing field to the left. This has led to programs that lack guidance from some important conservative intuitions, like fiscal restraint, the centrality of family and the power of markets.

California has until Saturday to balance a budget that is billions of dollars out of whack, and not in a good way. Ambitious, worthy programs put into place in 2022, when Gov. Gavin Newsom was projecting a record surplus, are being paused or rolled back, and state reserves are being drawn down.

This analysis of a Bureau of Labor Statistics report reveals much-needed growth in the beleaguered sector. However, a seasonal dip in employment patterns over the summer months may soon cause a decrease, experts note.

You can’t have high-quality early education without high-quality early educators, and you can’t recruit and retain high-quality educators without providing professional pay and opportunities for professional growth.

A tech company out of San Diego is working to solve the vexing problem that is child care, by creating a platform where employers, working parents and child care providers can connect and transact.