Oregon posts workplace outbreaks, California has no such plan
Oregon led with transparency in reporting workplace outbreaks. California shields businesses so as not to shame them. The distinction has workers and public health experts worried.
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There's a business case for companies to offer child care benefits
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the inextricable link between child care and the economy — and it's pushing businesses to confront the cost of working parents' unpaid side gig.
The American Government Once Offered Widely Affordable Child Care ... 77 Years Ago
Rachael Shannon gets nostalgic when she thinks of the life she lived in Germany until just a couple of years ago.
Child care crisis could cost women $64.5 billion in lost wages
A new report from The Century Foundation and Center for American Progress estimates women could lose $64.5 billion a year in earnings if current trends in workforce participation hold. The economic devastation of the pandemic has hit women particularly hard.
California needs a statewide system for measuring kindergarten readiness
We have to recognize that education-related inequities begin before children enter the classroom. Kara Dukakis is a senior program officer at Tipping Point Community, which fights poverty by funding nonprofits in the Bay Area, kdukakis@tippingpoint.org.
COVID could be the wakeup call businesses need to fix a broken child care system
Businesses have finally realized that the child care crisis damages the economy, and that it’s in their best, most selfish interests to help solve it. Back in 2009, when New York City imposed a tax on big businesses to help pay for the subway system, most got on board.
Who Minds The Children? Parental Childcare Choices
The landscape of childcare in the US has changed markedly over the past few decades. As recently as 1975, more than half of US children had a stay-at-home parent (commonly the mother).
The Rise of the ‘Carebnb’: Is This Home-Based Model the Future of the Childcare Industry?
For the past six years, Brittany Schultz has been a kindergarten teacher in the Denver public school system. On May 28, she left, and on June 15, she opened Ms. Brittany’s Village day care in her home in Commerce City, Colo., with her three children and one from another family.
How coronavirus exposed the flaws of the childcare economy
The U.S. government's Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that childcare workers in the nation have a median salary of just over $24,000 a year—below the poverty line for a family of four.
It’s Time to Talk About Covid-19 and Surfaces Again
Beth Kalb was worried about the pews. This summer, the century-old Catholic church she attends in a small town outside Minneapolis had, like many places, reopened its doors with new rituals of disinfection. Kalb had quickly noticed the side effects.