Meeting Communities Where They Are: How Local Child Care Initiatives are Boosting Economic Development

Across the country, communities are realizing something many families have known for years: child care isn’t just a family concern, it’s economic development infrastructure. At Business of Child Care, that realization has shaped everything we do. It’s taken us on a four-year journey alongside civic leaders, employers, providers, and parents in rural communities who are […]

County Leaders Zero in on Sustainable Child Care Solutions

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

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 […]