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Articles by Nina Dastur
How Colorado Tailored Its Childcare Plan to Serve Its Families
Ensuring universal access to childcare is an ambitious policy goal. But ambitious does not mean impossible. Public access to high-quality, affordable childcare is a necessary part of a good life for American families. In this interview series, we speak with childcare implementers and system builders around the country to help shed light on what it takes to make a public childcare system work—not just the concept of it, but the nuts and bolts. You can read the other installments here.
Where States Are Innovating on Childcare: Lessons for a National Universal Childcare Policy
The US ranks 40th out of 41 comparably wealthy nations in offering accessible, affordable, and quality childcare. Childcare is essential infrastructure; it not only allows parents to work, attend school, and gain financial stability, but it is also a necessary building block of healthy child development.
The Public Options Tool Kit: Ensuring Access, Public Value, and Accountability in the Economy
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The Collective Power of Childcare Workers and Their Communities: A Case Study of California
For too long, the US has seen childcare as a problem for the private market. But that market has failed in every way. Childcare remains unaffordable, exceeding families’ costs of housing in most of the country. Childcare workers are not paid a living wage, leading to massive workforce shortages, which result in half of families living in a childcare desert.
Building a Vision for Universal Public Childcare: Principles for a Childcare System That Works for Workers and Families
Executive Summary Introduction A Vision for Universal Public Childcare Table 1. Evaluating Childcare Proposals Using Principles of a Public Universal System Acknowledgements The current early childhood care and education (ECE) system in the US is broken. Families struggle to access and afford ECE, and ECE providers across the workforce struggle to get by on chronically low wages. Half of families live in a childcare desert.
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