For the sake of the economy, child care must be built back better
It’s time to accept that America’s child care market is fundamentally broken.
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Why child care in the U.S. lags behind much of the world
Ideological differences make more of a difference than financial resources in keeping U.S. child care behind. Barbara Risman has studied gender, family and work for about 40 years.
What happens when child care runs out?
The American workforce has had a lot to celebrate in recent months. Employment and job opportunities are on the rise, companies are offering more flexibility, and more employees are getting vaccinated and shedding their pajamas in favor of real pants.
A model for how to spend federal money on early education already exists
The Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership has supported local child-care programs for years. Lawmakers can learn from it for the Build Back Better act.
Joe Manchin says he is unable to support President Biden's Build Back Better plan
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin doomed President Biden's roughly $2 trillion social spending and climate legislation known as Build Back Better on Sunday, telling Fox News in an interview that he cannot support it.
Universal transitional kindergarten could bring relief to parents, but threatens child care providers
Soon California public schools will offer free transitional kindergarten for all four year olds. It will be a big help to working parents, but K PBS reporter Tanya thorn tells us it may have unintended consequences for childcare providers. Pamela causes four year old goes to an in-home daycare.
As child care costs soar, providers are barely getting by. Is there any fix?
Claire Suddath, a journalist in Brooklyn, pays about $24,000 a year for daycare for her 17-month-old daughter. Though considered cheap by Brooklyn standards, it's still an enormous expense — and one that Suddath acknowledges is out of reach for many parents.
Child care hiring crisis is closing programs and keeping parents out of workforce
A hiring crisis is closing classrooms at Nurtury Early Education in Boston.The nonprofit, which serves mostly low-income families, has seen its staff shrink 30% during the coronavirus pandemic."We cannot find enough educators who are willing to come into our classrooms," CEO Laura Perille said.
California Department of Public Health Requires Universal Indoor Masking Through January
On December 13, 2021, the California Department of Public Health issued binding guidance requiring all Californians statewide to mask indoors irrespective of vaccination status.
Omicron evades Moderna vaccine too, study suggests, but boosters help
There's more mixed news about the power of vaccines to protect people against the omicron variant — this time about the Moderna vaccine. Previous research had indicated the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is also less protective against omicron.