Tackling the Child Care Space Shortage: Guiding Communities Towards Expanding Capacity
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 […]
The Demand for Child Care Access is Not Going Away – Here’s How Civic and Business Leaders can Step Up
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 they inform about a new pregnancy, so she can plan to have space available.
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 […]
Addressing the Shortage of Child Care: Focus First on Staffing
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 […]
