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Tackling the Child Care Space Shortage: Guiding Communities Towards Expanding Capacity

Child Care Shortage, Child Care Space, EarlyEd FlexPlexOctober 18, 2023649Views 0Likes 1Comment

Watch Video Summary Layouts: Popup In its most recent report, The State of America’s Children, the Children’s Defense Fund found the nation fell short some 3.6 million licensed child care spaces for children potentially in need of child care in 2021. This is disastrous from both a personal and national economic perspective. Not only are millions…

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Child Care Fiscal Cliff Looms as Federal Funds Come to an End

Child Care FundingAugust 21, 2023759Views 0Likes 0Comments

With Pandemic Funding Set to Expire, Communities Face Economic Disruption By Jeff Andrews, President Business of Child Care The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) signed by President Biden in March of 2021 brought with it $24 billion in federal funding for child care providers at risk of closing during the…

County Leaders Zero in on Sustainable Child Care Solutions

Child Care Community ApproachJuly 31, 2023691Views 0Likes 0Comments

How often do you enter a room knowing you can help nearly everyone in that room who is looking for a solution to a very big problem? That’s how we felt at this year’s annual conference for the National Association of Counties (NACo) that just wrapped up in Austin, Tx. Dozens of attendees stopped by…

The Demand for Child Care Access is Not Going Away – Here’s How Civic and Business Leaders can Step Up

Child Care Shortage, Child Care Space, EarlyEd FlexPlexJuly 12, 2023840Views 0Likes 0Comments

One of our clients has been running an in-home family child care business for nearly 20 years. With all the challenges Sally faces as a small business owner, filling up child care slots is not one of them. Sally is only half-joking when she tells her families she should be one of the first people…

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The Whole Community Approach: Why Child Care is Everybody’s Business

Child Care Community Approach, Child Care ShortageMay 17, 2023440Views 0Likes 1Comment

The success of the U.S. has primarily been based on hard work. Whether we are talking industrial or pre-industrial days, the key to hard work, productivity, and our survival was in having someone at home to tend to the children to support the job holder outside the home. In the latter half of the 20th…

Addressing the Shortage of Child Care: Focus First on Staffing

Child Care ShortageApril 26, 2023601Views 0Likes 0Comments

The shortage of quality, affordable child care is ringing alarm bells for companies, regional economic developers and politicians who understand it’s no longer a problem that can be pushed off on families to resolve on their own – it’s a threat to growing businesses and economies. As workplaces try to find a new normal after…

Business of Child Care Partners with Moultrie County, Ill. to Address Growing Child Care Needs

Community PartnershipsFebruary 2, 2023832Views 0Likes 0Comments

Approximately 60% of rural families are living in a child care desert in this country. What does that mean? The Center for American Progress defines a child care desert as any census tract where more than 50 children under the age of 5 have no access to child care providers, or where there are three…

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Tackling the Child Care Space Shortage: Guiding Communities Towards Expanding Capacity

Child Care Fiscal Cliff Looms as Federal Funds Come to an End

County Leaders Zero in on Sustainable Child Care Solutions

The Demand for Child Care Access is Not Going Away – Here’s How Civic and Business Leaders can Step Up

The Whole Community Approach: Why Child Care is Everybody’s Business

Addressing the Shortage of Child Care: Focus First on Staffing

Business of Child Care Partners with Moultrie County, Ill. to Address Growing Child Care Needs

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