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The Build Back Better Act Would Reach 16X More Children with Child Care Assistance
A new analysis from the Center for American Progress shows that the Build Back Better Act will ensure child care assistance for 16 times as many young children as under …
Child Care and Pre-K are Strategic Economic Investments: Impact on Employment and Earnings
Following the blogs outlining key health and education reasons why the U.S. must fully invest in both child care and preschool, this blog focuses on how high-quality early learning and …

Child Care & Pre-K are Strategic Economic Investments: Impact on Health
As Congress considers the Build Back Better Act, the White House recently released President Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda Will Boost Economic Growth, a fact sheet analyzing how various policies …

Child Care and Pre-K are Strategic Economic Investments: Impact on Education
This is the first part of our blog series focusing on key reasons why the U.S. must fully invest in both the child care and preschool aspects of the Build …

Child Care Aware of America Shares Fall Update on How States are Spending Federal Relief Funds
Recently, Child Care Aware of America released, “Federal Relief Funds: State Progress, Fall 2021,” an update on how states are using American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act funds as of October …
New Resource Provides Roadmap for State Specific ECE Policy
On October 7, thousands of policymakers, scholars, and practitioners across the nation joined the National Prenatal-to-3 Research to Policy Summit. At the summit, the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center unveiled the …

Families in Rural Communities Face Acute Child Care Challenges
Access to high-quality child care is a challenge for many Americans. In fact, 31.7% of children below the age of six with all parents in the workforce come from families …

Treasury Dept. Report Highlights Market Failures in America’s Child Care System and How Build Back Better Can Help
The Department of Treasury released the Economics of Child Care Supply, a report analyzing America’s existing child care system that demonstrates how the private, market-based system fails to meet the …

Child Care Aware of America Shares Summer Update on How States are Spending Federal Relief Funds
Recently, Child Care Aware of America released “Federal Relief Funds: State Progress, Summer 2021,” an update on how states plan to use Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations (CRRSA) Act …
Supporting Prenatal-to-Three with Federal Relief Funds Planning Resource
The BUILD Initiative, in collaboration with EducationCounsel, Center for Law and Social Policy, Georgetown Center for Children and Families, and Linchpin Strategies, released Supporting Prenatal-to-Three with Federal Relief Funds, a …

White House Economic Brief Details Projected Cost Savings from Build Back Better Agenda, Including Child Care & Preschool Proposal
The White House Council of Economic Advisers and Office of Management and Budget released “The Cost of Living in America: Helping Families Move Ahead,” an issue brief that examines long-term …
President Biden’s Child Care & Early Learning Proposal Could Serve 8.27 Million More Young Children
The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), and the Century Foundation recently released a fact sheet, “Child Care and Early Learning Proposal Could …